Importance of personality and coping expectancy on patient-reported hearing disability, quality of life and distress level: a study of patients referred to an audiology service

Table 5 Pearson`s product-moment correlation coefficients between coping expectancies and general and functional quality of life in those with Presbyacusis or noise-induced hearing loss and those with hereditary of congenital hearing loss

Diagnosis	Presbyacusis and noise-induced (n = 91)			Hereditary and congenital (n = 32)
TOMCATS	Positive Coping	Helplessness	Hopelessness	Positive Coping	Helplessness	Hopelessness
QoL
General	.32**	− .49**	− .29**	.78**	− .79**	− .75**
Functional	.25*	− .38**	− .34**	.56**	− .69**	− .59**

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
Bold written coefficients: Statistically significant stronger correlation coefficient in those with hereditary or congenital cause of hearing loss than in those with presbyacusis or noise-induced hearing loss

ISSN: 1477-7525