Personality and Suffering in the Hospitalized Chronically Ill
Table 5: Linear regression between IESSD and NEO-FFI-20
| Personality Traits | r | r2 (%) | t | p |
| Neuroticism | 0.116 | 1.3 | 2.024 | 0.044* |
| Extroversion | 0.125 | 1.6 | 2.181 | 0.030* |
| Openness to experience | -0.242 | 5.8 | -4.318 | 0.000*** |
| Agreeableness | -0.139 | 1.9 | -2.438 | 0.015* |
| Conscientiousness | 0.329 | 10.8 | 6.023 | 0.000*** |
