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

Table 3 Patient-caregiver concordance (Pearson correlations) in corresponding complaint scores¹ and health locus of control dimensions²

	Total sample (N = 50)		Asthma (n = 25)		Somatoform disorder (n = 25)
Variable	r	p	r	p	r	p
Fatigue	.27	.066	.23	ns	.29	ns
Gastro-intestinal symptoms	.46	.001	.20	ns	.55	.005
Limb pain	.43	.002	.50	.011	.41	.044
Circulation symptoms	.47	.001	.08	ns	.52	.010
Cold symptoms	.39	.005	.36	.077	.48	.018
Total complaints	.30	.040	.22	ns	.35	.092
Internal health locus of control	.31	.028	.10	ns	.48	.015
Socio-external locus of control	.15	ns	.09	ns	.24	ns
Fatalistic external locus of control	.00	ns	-.03	ns	.06	ns

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