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Table 2 Effects of diagnosis1 and perspective2 on health locus of control beliefs3

From: Illness perception in pediatric somatization and asthma: complaints and health locus of control beliefs

 

SOMATOFORM DISORDER

ASTHMA

ANOVAR

 

parents

patients

parents

patients

single effect:

single effect:

interaction effect:

Health locus of control:

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

diagnosis F (p)

informant F (p)

diagnosis × informant F (p)

Internal

28.0 (5.5)

25.4 (7.9)

27.5 (5.5)

21.1 (6.5)

2.2 (.143)

15.9 (< .001)

2.4 (.124)

Socio-external

23.9 (4.7)

23.3 (5.9)

25.4 (5.2)

22.4 (6.1)

<1 (ns)

2.7 (.105)

1.0 (ns)

Fatalistic external

28.2 (6.2)

24.7 (8.1)

33.1 (6.0)

24.0 (7.2)

2.4 (.130)

20.2 (< .001)

4.0 (.052)

  1. 1 somatoform disorder, asthma bronchiale
  2. 2 parent proxy reported, patients' self report
  3. 3 measured by the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale;
  4. results of ANOVARs for different diagnosis (somatoform disorder, asthma bronchiale) as independent variable and the repeatedly measured (parent proxy reported, patients' self report) health locus of control beliefs as dependent variables; df = 3, 47