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Table 2 Comparison and correlations of the psychological assessments between kidney transplant recipients and donors (Mean (SD))

From: Psychological characteristics and associations between living kidney transplantation recipients and biologically related or unrelated donors

Total sample

Biologically related sample

Biologically unrelated sample

Variables

Recipient

(n = 53)

Donors

(n = 53)

t

P

Spearman’s

Correlation(P)

Recipient

(n = 31)

Donors

(n = 31)

t

P

Recipient

(n = 22)

Donors

(n = 22)

t

P

MMPI_L

49.89(8.09)

50.25(9.26)

0.02

0.98

0.03

47.74(6.93)

50.55(10.89)

1.23

0.23

52.91(8.78)

49.81(6.35)

−1.96

0.06

MMPI_F

43.32(6.47)

44.29(7.65)

0.70

0.49

0.22

43.94(7.16)

45.26(8.34)

0.75

0.46

42.45(5.40)

42.86(6.42)

0.14

0.89

MMPI_K

52.55(9.59)

52.92(11.22)

0.14

0.89

0.28†

51.13(10.26)

52.71(12.76)

0.67

0.51

54.55(8.39)

53.24(8.74)

−0.69

0.50

MMPI_Hs

51.57(8.66)

44.79(6.13)

−4.49

0.0001*

−0.06

50.97(8.20)

45.03(5.85)

−3.00

0.0054*

52.41(9.41)

44.43(6.67)

−3.37

0.003*

MMPI_D

53.30(11.15)

46.87(8.79)

−3.36

0.0015*

0.02

52.97(11.34)

46.90(9.78)

−2.16

0.04

53.77(11.12)

46.81(7.33)

−2.86

0.0098*

MMPI_Hy

51.74(8.80)

46.29(7.20)

−3.30

0.0018*

−0.10

50.52(7.84)

46.13(7.26)

−2.11

0.04

53.45(9.92)

46.52(7.27)

−2.57

0.02

MMPI_Pd

47.43(10.63)

44.69(8.23)

−1.43

0.16

−0.06

47.65(11.76)

44.77(9.29)

−0.98

0.34

47.14(9.06)

44.57(6.56)

−1.20

0.25

MMPI_Mf

50.06(9.65)

46.65(7.83)

−1.77

0.08

−0.07

49.61(10.62)

47.55(7.21)

−0.88

0.39

50.68(8.31)

45.33(8.69)

−1.78

0.09

MMPI_Pa

46.81(8.16)

45.75(8.83)

−0.68

0.50

−0.01

47.87(9.88)

46.45(9.91)

−0.54

0.59

45.32(4.64)

44.71(7.05)

−0.44

0.67

MMPI_Pt

46.06(7.65)

45.12(9.30)

−0.56

0.58

0.06

45.90(8.61)

45.68(8.19)

−0.10

0.92

46.27(6.23)

44.29(10.90)

−0.77

0.45

MMPI_Sc

43.77(8.08)

44.44(8.79)

0.40

0.69

0.08

43.77(9.45)

45.35(7.90)

0.75

0.46

43.77(5.84)

43.10(10.02)

−0.32

0.76

MMPI_Ma

45.79(8.84)

46.27(8.32)

0.39

0.70

0.40†

43.61(5.65)

46.26(9.04)

1.66

0.11

48.86(11.44)

46.29(7.34)

−0.91

0.37

MMPI_Si

46.43(9.98)

47.63(10.41)

0.50

0.63

0.19

47.45(10.31)

48.16(10.57)

0.28

0.78

45.00(9.55)

46.86(10.37)

0.44

0.67

STAI-S

39.91(10.45)

37.29(10.42)

−1.50

0.14

0.36†

39.16(10.88)

35.71(10.66)

−1.45

0.16

40.95(9.98)

39.62(9.84)

−0.48

0.64

STAI-T

39.81(10.32)

35.96(9.08)

−2.14

0.04

0.26

40.13(11.00)

35.32(9.25)

−1.93

0.06

39.36(9.51)

36.90(8.97)

−0.92

0.37

CES-D

13.49(8.24)

8.56(6.77)

−3.93

0.0003*

0.36†

13.61(9.45)

7.94(6.44)

−3.53

0.0014*

13.32(6.35)

9.48(7.30)

−1.88

0.08

  1. Note: MMPI-2 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, L Lie, F Infrequency; K Defensiveness, Hs Hypochondriasis, D Depression, Hy Hysteria, Pd Psychopathic Deviate, Mf Masculinity-Femininity, Pa Paranoia, Pt Psychasthenia, Sc Schizophrenia, Ma Hypomania, Si Social Introversion, STAI-S Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-State, STAI-T Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait, CES-D The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
  2. *p < 0.017 (Bonferroni-corrected significance level; 0.5/3 tests)
  3. †p < 0.05 (Spearman’s correlation analyses)
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