Annals of General Psychiatry

Table 6 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient between the scale results and the respondents’ sex and age

From: Occurrence of mood disorders among educationally active older adults in Bialystok, Poland: a cross-sectional study

	Gender								Age
	Women				Men				60–70 years				71–90 years
	GDS	HCL-32	MDQ	Zung SDS	GDS	HCL-32	MDQ	Zung SDS	GDS	HCL-32	MDQ	Zung SDS	GDS	HCL-32	MDQ	Zung SDS
GDS
r_s	–	0.103	0.152	0.248	–	− 0.029	− 0.256	0.050	–	0.173	0.074	0.094	–	− 0.058	0.053	0.344
p	–	0.235	0.079	0.004*	–	0.887	0.197	0.804	–	0.091	0.472	0.362	–	0.642	0.675	0.005*
HCL-32
r_s	0.103	–	0.547	− 0.198	− 0.029	–	0.664	− 0.543	0.173	–	0.549	− 0.159	− 0.058	–	0.555	− 0.346
p	0.235	–	< 0.001*	0.021	0.887	–	< 0.001*	0.003*	0.091	–	< 0.001*	0.122	0.642	–	< 0.001*	0.004*
MDQ
r_s	0.152	0.547	–	0.020	− 0.256	0.664	–	− 0.211	0.074	0.549	–	− 0.010	0.053	0.555	–	− 0.014
p	0.079	< 0.001*	–	0.819	0.197	< 0.001*	–	0.290	0.472	< 0.001*	–	0.926	0.675	< 0.001*	–	0.909
Zung SDS
r_s	0.248	− 0.198	0.020	–	0.050	− 0.543	− 0.211	–	0.094	− 0.159	− 0.010	–	0.344	− 0.346	− 0.014	–
p	0.004*	0.021	0.819	–	0.804	0.003*	0.290	–	0.362	0.122	0.926	–	0.005*	0.004*	0.909	–

GDS, Geriatric Depression Scale; HCL-32, Hypomania Check List; MDQ, Mood Disorder Questionnaire; p, p-value; r_s, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient; Zung SDS, Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
*Statistically significant value

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