Why is this happening to me? – a comparison of illness representations between Iranian and German people with mental illness

Table 3 Correlation matrix of IPQ subscales and sample characteristics of the German patient sample

	Age^a	Sex^b	Educational level^b	Religiousness^b	PHQ9^a	GAD7^a	PHQ15^a	SOMS7^a	Coherence^a	Emotional representation^a
Age^a	–
Sex^b	0.15	–
Educational level^b	−0.08	0.00	–
Religiousness^b	0.30**	0.17	− 0.14	–
PHQ9^a	− 0.01	0.08	0.10	0.02	–
GAD7^a	0.07	0.04	−0.01	0.08	0.72**	–
PHQ15^a	0.19	0.22*	−0.04	0.14	0.66**	0.70**	–
SOMS7^a	0.16	0.30**	−0.16	0.11	0.48**	0.45**	0.75**	–
Coherence^a	−0.02	0.14	0.03	−0.05	−0.19	− 0.20	−0.11	− 0.14	–
Emotional representation^a	−0.18	0.001	−0.08	0.06	0.38**	0.47**	0.38**	0.30**	−0.21*	–
Supernatural beliefs^a	0.13	−0.01	−0.07	0.19*	0.02	−0.09	0.10	0.11	−0.06	0.01

Note. N = 90, ^a Pearson’s product-moment correlation, ^b Kendall’s tau, * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001

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