Are Histrionic Personality Traits Associated with Irritability during Conscious Sedation Endoscopy?

Table 5

Comparisons of psychological variables between irritable and stable group.

	Irritable group	Stable group
	n = 32	n = 32
Histrionic personality trait, mean ± SD	9.5 ± 3.1	6.9 ± 2.9	0.001
Extravert, (%)	17 (53.1)	12 (37.5)	0.209
SCL-90-R, mean ± SD
Somatization	48.6 ± 9.9	47.2 ± 8.7	0.549
Obsession-compulsion	46.0 ± 10.2	46.1 ± 11.1	0.879
Interpersonal sensitivity	47.1 ± 8.6	46.5 ± 10.2	0.822
Depression	46.5 ± 7.9	46.7 ± 9.2	0.954
Anxiety	52.8 ± 8.6	46.1 ± 9.6	0.004
Hostility	45.1 ± 6.9	45.8 ± 8.1	0.727
Phobic anxiety	48.4 ± 9.8	46.9 ± 8.3	0.513
Paranoid ideation	46.0 ± 8.3	43.7 ± 7.1	0.232
Psychoticism	47.7 ± 7.0	47.4 ± 7.5	0.877