Social cognition in chronic migraine with medication overuse: a cross-sectional study on different aspects of mentalization and social relationships

Table 4 Correlation between socio-cognitive abilities and other variables in which we found group differences, separately for each group

	FP Cognitive	FP Affective	SS Mentalistic	RMET Experimental
CM + MO group
TAS-20 Factor 1	-0.17	-0.01	-0.13	0.12
TAS-20 Factor 2	-0.05	-0.05	-0.06	-0.16
AQ	-0.04	0.03	-0.45***	0.16
LSNS-R—Family	0.14	-0.01	0.23	0.08
FS social support	0.18	-0.11	0.25*	-0.19
HADS—Depression	-0.17	-0.07	-0.53***	0.03
WHQOL-BREF	0.56	0.29	0.32**	-0.23
EM group
TAS-20 Factor 1	-0.21	-0.22	-0.10	-0.06
TAS-20 Factor 2	-0.06	-0.06	-0.12	-0.05
AQ	-0.09	0.21	-0.30*	0.18
LSNS-R—Family	-0.03	0.21	0.35**	-0.09
FS social support	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.49
HADS—Depression	-0.05	0.01	-0.34**	-0.10
WHQOL-BREF	0.06	0.09	0.11	-0.04
HC group
TAS-20 Factor 1	0.05	0.15	-0.21	0.17
TAS-20 Factor 2	-0.07	-0.01	-0.21	-0.07
AQ	-0.07	-0.01	-0.08	-0.16
LSNS-R—Family	0.27*	0.12	0.05	-0.09
FS social support	0.05	-0.06	-0.01	0.01
HADS—Depression	-0.09	-0.02	0.04	-0.06
WHQOL-BREF	-0.14	-0.17	0.07	-0.01

Note: CM + MO Chronic Migraine with Medication Overuse, EM Episodic Migraine, HC Healthy Control, FP Faux Pas test, SS Strange Stories task, RMET Reading Mind in the Eyes Test, TAS-20 Toronto Alexithymia Scale, AQ Autism Quotient, LSNS-R Lubben Social Network Scale – Revised, FS Friendship Scale, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, WHQOL-BREF World Health Organization Quality of Life. The variable FS social support is a categorical variable coded as 1 = low social support, 2 = moderate social support, 3 = high social support
***p < .001; **p < .01; *p < .05

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