Social Beliefs About Complaints In Interpersonal Communication And Subjective Pain
Table 1:
Pain localizations | Males | Females | Correlations with age | Cronbach’s alphas for symptoms’ functions in communication | ||
Mean | Std. Deviation | Mean | Std. Deviation | |||
Abdominal pain | 2.61 | 2.50 | 3.21 | 2.54 | -.25** | .90 |
Headache | 3.54 | 2.73 | 3.79 | 2.73 | -.11 | .92 |
Joint pain | 1.50 | 2.17 | 2.06 | 2.74 | .19* | .92 |
Back pain | 2.21 | 2.48 | 3.38 | 3.09 | .01 | .92 |
Pain in arms and legs | 1.68 | 2.18 | 1.80 | 2.39 | .18 | .90 |
Heartache | 1.07 | 1.94 | 2.16 | 2.63 | .14 | .93 |
Pain the eyes | 2.50 | 2.92 | 2.44 | 2.67 | -.08 | .91 |
Toothache | 1.14 | 1.08 | 1.47 | 1.71 | .06 | .89 |
Sore throat | 3.43 | 2.49 | 3.27 | 2.30 | -.10 | .91 |