Pain Intensity Is Not Always Associated with Poorer Health Status: Exploring the Moderating Role of Spouse Personality

Table 1

Means and standard deviations of patient and spouse characteristics.

	Patient	Spouse
Age	56.82 (13.60)	56.66 (13.85)
Pain duration (years)	6.56 (8.57)
Personality
Neuroticism	20.05 (8.45)	24.19 (7.05)
Extraversion	26.99 (7.54)	31.79 (5.53)
Conscientiousness	32.43 (6.87)	24.54 (8.96)
Openness	31.86 (6.84)	26.26 (8.08)
Agreeableness	30.88 (6.20)	22.74 (7.41)
Pain and health status
Pain intensity	7.71 (1.56)
Physical Functioning	34.80 (23.65)
Mental Composite Score	39.04 (12.44)