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Table 5 Results of Bayesian adaptive LASSO quantile regression for lower gastrointestinal somatization symptoms with adjusting confounding variables (e.g. sex and age)

From: Explanation of somatic symptoms by mental health and personality traits: application of Bayesian regularized quantile regression in a large population study

Response variable

Exploratory variables

Quartile 1 (0.25)

Coefficient (%95 CI)

Quartile 2 (0.5)

Coefficient (%95 CI)

Quartile 3 (0.75)

Coefficient (%95 CI)

Lower gastrointestinal

Stress

0.15 (0.08, 0.22)

0.22 (0.18, 0.26)

0.22 (0.16, 0.27)

Anxiety

0.40 (0.33, 0.47)

0.52 (0.46, 0.58)

0.64 (0.58, 0.71)

Depression

0.24 (0.18, 0.30)

0.25 (0.21, 0.30)

0.34 (0.29, 0.39)

Neuroticism

0.01 (0.01, 0.02)

0.01 (0.01, 0.01)

0.02 (0.02, 0.03)

Extraversion

0.00 (− 0.01, 0.00)

−0.01 (− 0.01,0.00)

0.00 (0.00, 0.00)

Agreeableness

0.01 (0.01, 0.02)

0.00 (−0.01, 0.00)

0.00 (−0.01,0.00)

Openness

−0.02 (− 0.02, − 0.02)

−0.02 (− 0.03, − 0.02)

−0.01 (− 0.01,0.00)

Conscientiousness

0.02 (0.01, 0.02)

0.03 (0.03, 0.03)

0.02 (0.02, 0.02)