Temperament and Character Personality Profile and Illness-Related Stress in Central Serous Chorioretinopathy

Table 2

Spearman’s correlations between personality dimensions, sociodemographic and illness characteristics, and illness-related stress in central serous chorioretinopathy patients.

	Illness-related stress
	Work	Private life
Personality traits
Novelty seeking	0.073	0.137
Harm avoidance	0.289*	0.127
Reward dependence	−0.035	0.022
Persistence	0.163	−0.155
Self-directedness	−0.240^(∗)	−0.032
Cooperativeness	−0.360**	−0.002
Self-transcendence	0.129	−0.028
Sociodemographic/illness characteristics
Sex	−0.116	−0.027
Age	−0.192	−0.179
Education^1	−0.171	0.022
Employment^1	0.022	−0.122
Partnership status^1	0.135	0.141
Duration of illness	0.023	−0.071
Relapses (number)	−0.195	−0.083
Visual acuity (Snellen)	0.011	0.028
Severity of illness (subjective)	0.447**	0.262*

^(∗)𝑃<0.10; ^∗𝑃<0.05; ^∗∗𝑃<0.01.  
¹Rank order as shown in Table 1:
education: 1: no education, 2: secondary school, 3: A levels; employment: 1: unemployed/other, 2: blue collar, 3: white collar, 4: self-employed; partnership: 1: single, 2: in a relationship.