Fear of Severe Pain Mediates Sex Differences in Pain Sensitivity Responses to Thermal Stimuli

Table 1

Correlation table of pain ratings to thermal responses with sex and FPQ scores.

	45°C	47°C	49°C	51°C	FPQ-score	FPQ-severe	FPQ-minor	FPQ-medical
Sex-female	0.11	0.13	0.16*	0.18*	0.13	0.17*	0.01	0.14
FPQ-score	0.17*	0.19*	0.24**	0.25**	1	0.91**	0.87**	0.90**
FPQ-severe	0.19*	0.25**	0.28**	0.30**	0.91**	1	0.69**	0.72**
FPQ-minor	0.12	0.15	0.18*	0.19*	0.87**	0.69**	1	0.70**
FPQ-medical	0.15	0.11	0.15*	0.17*	0.90**	0.72**	0.70**	1

 **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).