Experience of gratitude, awe and beauty in life among patients with multiple sclerosis and psychiatric disorders

Table 2 Mean scores of gratitude, awe, beauty, and gratitude/awe sum score stratified by gender disease and spiritual/religious self-categorization

		Experience of			Gratitude/awe Sum score (SpREUK-P; 0–100)
		Gratitude (0–1)	Awe (0–1)	Beauty in life (0–1)
Entire sample	Mean	1.21	.87	1.74	42.39
Entire sample	SD	.91	.89	.84	23.78
Gender
Female	Mean	1.29	.92	1.80	44.66
Female	SD	.92	.90	.85	23.97
Male	Mean	1.01	.78	1.59	37.57
Male	SD	.87	.85	.80	22.35
F value		9.2	2.2	6.0	8.8
p value		.003	n.s.	.015	.003
Diseases
Psychotic disorders	Mean	1.20	.92	1.72	42.56
Psychotic disorders	SD	.96	.89	.87	25.26
Depressive disorders	Mean	1.11	.94	1.41	38.37
Depressive disorders	SD	.92	.95	.77	24.61
Multiple sclerosis	Mean	1.26	.80	1.92	44.32
	SD	.88	.85	.79	22.06
F value		1.0	1.1	13.6	2.2
p value		n.s.	n.s.	<.0001	n.s.
SpR self-categorization
R+S+	Mean	1.87	1.43	1.98	59.02
R+S+	SD	.83	.92	.75	23.74
R+S-	Mean	1.44	.98	1.84	47.27
R+S-	SD	.88	.84	.82	23.64
R-S+	Mean	1.32	1.06	2.05	49.51
R-S+	SD	.90	.99	.75	24.16
R-S-	Mean	.88	.64	1.52	33.62
R-S-	SD	.81	.78	.84	20.09
F value		25.8	15.5	10.7	26.6
p value		<.0001	<.0001	<.0001	<.0001

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