Research Article

The Relationship between Individual Personality Traits (Internality-Externality) and Psychological Distress in Employees in Japan

Table 4

Correlation between the internality-externality (locus of control) scale and Kessler 6 (K6) scale by sex and age distribution (Spearman's rank correlation).

AgeAll participantsMalesFemales

≤29−0.379*−0.273*−0.443*
30–39−0.331*−0.407*−0.284*
40–49−0.315*−0.348*−0.287*
≥50−0.310*−0.348*−0.253*

Total−0.328*−0.344*−0.311*

: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, * .