Pain and psyche in a patient with irritable bowel syndrome: chicken or egg? A time series case report

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 3 Significant instantaneous correlations of somatization with psychological and coping variables

	Abdominal Pain	Daily Impairment	R²
Nervousness (N)	.24	.63	.41
Tension (T)	.32	.66	.44
Depressiveness (D)	-	.47	.25
Pain-associated discomfort (PD)	.97	.61	.94
Catastrophizing (C)	.42	.77	.59
Hopelessness (H)	.53	.70	.52
Coping: Positive thoughts (CPT)	.43	.55	.34
Coping: Imagining pain outside the body (CIP)	-	.33	.12

R², portion of predicted variance in psychological variables, from the regressions PV_t = β₁AP_t + β₂DI_t + e_t where PV, psychological/coping variable

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