Stability of personality traits over a five-year period in Swedish patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder and non-psychotic individuals: a study using the Swedish universities scales of personality

Table 4 Correlations between baseline and five year follow-up assessments of the Swedish universities Scales of Personality (SSP) in psychotic patients (n = 36) and control subjects (n = 76)

SSP scale	Spearman (rho)		Pearson (r)		ICC Consistency		ICC Agreement
	Patients	Controls	Patients	Controls	Patients	Controls	Patients	Controls
Somatic Trait Anxiety	0.30	0.57	0.31	0.64	0.30	0.64	0.31	0.64
Psychic Trait Anxiety	0.61	0.73	0.63	0.75	0.62	0.73	0.62	0.67
Stress Susceptibility	0.59	0.54	0.53	0.57	0.53	0.57	0.54	0.57
Lack of Assertiveness	0.48	0.64	0.56	0.70	0.56	0.70	0.56	0.70
Impulsiveness	0.62	0.64	0.62	0.67	0.62	0.67	0.62	0.65
Adventure Seeking	0.61	0.75	0.67	0.79	0.67	0.79	0.66	0.76
Detachment	0.67	0.63	0.69	0.71	0.67	0.71	0.68	0.71
Social Desirability	0.38	0.70	0.38	0.75	0.38	0.75	0.38	0.73
Embitterment	0.56	0.70	0.59	0.68	0.58	0.68	0.59	0.65
Trait Irritability	0.51	0.70	0.55	0.70	0.55	0.70	0.52	0.66
Mistrust	0.68	0.66	0.72	0.67	0.72	0.67	0.78	0.64
Verbal Trait Aggression	0.46	0.58	0.53	0.64	0.52	0.64	0.53	0.59
Physical Trait Aggression	0.52	0.69	0.54	0.75	0.54	0.75	0.54	0.68

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