Alexithymia, resilience and suicidal ideation among patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 2 Correlation matrix between obsessive–compulsive score, alexithymia score, resilience score, suicidal ideation score, age in years, onset of disease, and duration of disease (n = 140)

Items	Obsessive score		Alexithymia score		Resilience score		suicidal ideation score
Items	r	p	r	p	R	p	r	p
Alexithymia score	0.202*	0.017	1
Resilience score	− 0.25**	0.003	− 0.67**	0.0001	1
Suicidal ideation score	0.44 **	0.0001	0.39**	0.0001	− 0.42**	0.0001	1
Age in years	− 0.03	0.73	− 0.26 **	0.002	0.31 **	0.0001	− 0.127	0.14
Onset of disease	− 0.23 **	0.006	0.007	0.933	0.2*	0.021	− 0.102	0.23
Disease duration per year	0.134	0.115	0.05	0.56	− 0.027	0.75	0.24**	0.004