Anxiety, depression, and coping styles among cervical cancer patients during radiotherapy and their correlations with uncertainty in illness

Table 5 Correlation analysis between coping styles and uncertainty in illness level

Indicators	Ambiguity		Complexity		Deficit information		Unpredictability		Uncertainty in illness
	r value	P value	r value	P value	r value	P value	r value	P value	r value	P value
Confrontive	-0.065	0.636	-0.041	0.568	0.066	0.355	-0.035	0.624	-0.052	0.466
Evasive	0.140	0.048	0.193	0.006	0.309	< 0.001	0.188	0.008	0.286	< 0.001
Optimistic	0.052	0.467	-0.047	0.510	0.013	0.855	0.041	0.569	0.004	0.954
Fatalistic	0.306	< 0.001	0.249	< 0.001	0.404	< 0.001	0.371	< 0.001	0.363	< 0.001
Emotive	0.138	0.052	0.260	< 0.001	0.212	0.003	0.320	< 0.001	0.191	0.007
Palliative	-0.037	0.600	0.135	0.056	-0.056	0.427	-0.072	0.312	-0.056	0.428
Supportive	-0.077	0.279	0.121	0.087	0.123	0.083	-0.091	0.200	0.131	0.065
Self-reliant	0.074	0.299	0.108	0.130	0.124	0.079	-0.272	< 0.001	0.130	0.068