The relationship between coping strategies and life quality in major depressed patients

Table 2 Correlations between the mean values of the coping mechanisms and the domains of the WHOQOL scale—Brief and of the GAF scale, in a depressive episode

		GAF	G1	G2	Physical health	Mental health	Social relationships	General environment
Self-distraction	Pears. Correl.	0.218	0.192	0.354^**	0.272^*	0.215	0.067	0.347^**
Self-distraction	Sig. 2-tailed	0.081	0.126	0.004	0.028	0.086	0.596	0.005
Denial	Pears. Correl.	0.162	0.114	0.130	0.147	0.060	− 0.004	0.150
Denial	Sig. 2-tailed	0.196	0.365	0.302	0.243	0.637	0.977	0.232
Substance use to cope	Pears. Correl.	0.048	− 0.049	− 0.048	− 0.112	− 0.144	− 0.026	− 0.198
Substance use to cope	Sig. 2-tailed	0.703	0.700	0.702	0.374	0.253	0.840	0.114
Disengagement	Pears. Correl.	0.071	− 0.069	− 0.208	− 0.089	− 0.107	− 0.012	0.009
Disengagement	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.574	0.587	0.097	0.480	0.398	0.925	0.944
Self-blame	Pears. Correl.	0.007	0.036	− 0.119	− 0.217	− 0.466^**	− 0.281^*	− 0.198
Self-blame	Sig. 2-tailed	0.953	0.777	0.347	0.083	0.000	0.024	0.114

Pears. Correl. Pearson correlation, Sig significance, WHOQOL-Bref World Health Organization Quality-of-Life Scale, GAF Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, G1 How would you rate your quality of life? G2 How satisfied are you with your health?
* point out statistically significant associations between different domains that were evaluated