The influence of cognitive schemas on the mixed anxiety-depressive symptoms of breast cancer patients

BMC Women's Health

Table 4 The relation between cognitive schemas and depression (D), anxiety (A) and stress (S) for the two groups of participants: Group I - mastectomy, and breast reconstruction; Group II - mastectomy, without reconstruction

Cognitive schemas domains	Group I			Group II
Cognitive schemas domains	D^a	A^a	S^a	D^a	A^a	S^a
Disconnection and rejection	0.091	0.307	0.328	0.647^c	0.359^b	0.614^c
Impaired autonomy & performance	0.286	0.530^c	0.628^c	0.476^c	0.329	0.284
Other-directedness	0.034	0.200	0.308	0.154	0.119	0.211
Over vigilance and inhibition	0.098	0.040	−0.095	0.361^b	0.287	0.256
Impaired limits	0.198	−0.075	0.037	0.209	0.038	0.087
Approval-Seeking / Recognition-Seeking	0.081	0.194	0.196	0.205	0.064	0.039
Negativity / Pessimism	−0.018	0.156	0.385^b	0.620^c	0.481^c	0.493^c
Punitiveness	0.052	0.097	0.336	0.318	0.240	0.321

^aResults are presented as Spearman’s correlation coefficient ρ
Notes: ^bCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed t-test); ^cCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed t-test).

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