Interpersonal distances, coping strategies and psychopathology in patients with depression and schizophrenia

Table 2 Comfortable interpersonal distance from stimuli with different emotional valence and coping patterns (coping inventory for stressful situations) across the study groups

Variable	Depression group(n = 70)	Schizophrenia group(n = 51)	Nonpatient group(n = 61)	ANOVAF	P value	Tukey post-hocsingle comparisons1
Interpersonal distance (from)
Family members	115.5 ± 80.6	99.2 ± 57.5	80.4 ± 48.8	3	0.05	D > N
Self-images	129.1 ± 83.6	103.7 ± 75.9	59.5 ± 56.0	9.02	0.001	D > N < S
Significant others	192.5 ± 68.1	178.0 ± 68.3	158.8 ± 63.9	3.76	0.03	D > N
Neutral people	270.5 ± 63.1	219.2 ± 73.7	268.8 ± 76.6	9.02	0.001	D > S < N
Hostile images	336.2 ± 44.6	312.1 ± 75.9	348.0 ± 20.9	4.92	0.01	D > S < N
Coping pattern
Task-oriented	3.5 ± 0.8	3.1 ± 0.9	3.8 ± 0.7	7.45	0.001	D > S < N
Emotion-oriented	3.2 ± 0.9	3.0 ± 0.8	2.3 ± 0.8	14.01	0.0001	D > N < S
Avoidance-oriented	2.8 ± 1.0	3.0 ± 1.0	3.0 ± 0.9	0.82	0.44	D = S = N
Distraction	2.6 ± 1.2	2.7 ± 1.2	2.4 ± 1.1	0.53	0.59	D = S = N
Social diversion	3.0 ± 1.2	3.3 ± 1.2	3.6 ± 1.1	2.99	0.05	D < N

Mean score ± SD are shown.

¹All comparisons are significant at the 0.05 level.