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Table 4 Polychoric Correlation Matrix among study variables

From: Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Questionnaire: psychometric validation with a Portuguese sample

Variables

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

PVD

                

 1. Perceived infectability

(.82)

               

 2. Germ aversion

.27***

(.82)

              

DPSS-R

                

 3. Disgust propensity

.25**

.34***

(.85)

             

 4. Disgust sensitivity

.29***

.22*

.50***

(.87)

            

DS-R

                

 5. Core disgust

.04

.28***

.31***

.40***

(.81)

           

 6. Animal-reminder disgust

.02

.11

.20*

.39***

.68***

(.82)

          

 7. Contamination-based

.12

.41***

.16

.25**

.54***

.37***

(.58a)

         

 8. Total

.00

.28***

.28***

.43***

.93***

.86***

.66***

(.89)

        

MOCI

                

 9. Total

.39***

.42***

.43***

.35***

.18*

.12

.25**

.20*

(.86)

       

SQ-R15

                

 10. Total

.12

.09

.38***

.27**

.30***

.18*

.15

.27**

.37***

(.89)

      

MMPI-Hs

                

 11. Total

.32***

.23**

.41***

.27**

.13

.14

.10

.15

.52***

.29***

(.94)

     

NEO-FFI

                

 12. Neuroticism

.26**

.17*

.32***

.35***

.20*

.12

.11

.18*

.54***

.37***

.57***

(.88)

    

 13. Extraversion

.15

.11

.10

.01

.06

.11

− .07

.06

.24**

− .08

.25**

.45***

(.84)

   

 14. Openness

.02

.02

.07

.17*

.07

− .12

− .07

.10

.11

− .23**

.14

.21*

.27**

(.63b)

  

 15. Agreeableness

.21**

.07

.17

.08

.10

.17

− .08

.10

.24*

− .10

.27*

.20*

.26**

.22*

(.80)

 

 16. Conscientiousness

.08

.24**

.00

.06

.04

.11

.09

.09

.05

− .08

.14

.25**

.19*

.09

.14

(.89)

  1. Ordinal alphas are presented in parenthesis on the diagonal axis
  2. ***p < .001; **p < .01; *p < .05
  3. aAverage Polychoric R = .21
  4. bNon-ordinal alpha = .72