Table 1 Summary of demographic, clinical, and personality variables
Schizophrenia | Relatives | Controls | F | P | ||||
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Mean | s.e.m. | Mean | s.e.m. | Mean | s.e.m. | |||
Age | 28.0 | 1.4 | 40.4 | 1.5 | 30.4 | 1.1 | 22.4 | <0.001 |
Sex | 37M/24F | — | 36M/64F | — | 35M/33F | — | 10.0 | 0.007 |
Education | 10.0 | 0.3 | 9.9 | 0.4 | 11.1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.058 |
TCI domains—temperament | ||||||||
Novelty seeking | 96.0 | 1.8 | 93.3 | 1.4 | 95.4 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.309 |
Harm avoidance | 112..8 | 2.5 | 105.7 | 1.5 | 102.0 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 0.010 |
Reward dependence | 86.6 | 1.9 | 100.4 | 1.6 | 103.3 | 1.9 | 11.2 | <0.001 |
Persistence | 103.8 | 2.7 | 114.7 | 2.0 | 113.1 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.089 |
TCI domains—character | ||||||||
Self-directedness | 115.0 | 2.7 | 139.7 | 2.2 | 151.8 | 2.5 | 20.0 | <0.001 |
Cooperativeness | 119.2 | 2.3 | 131.1 | 1.6 | 137. 4 | 2.0 | 8.8 | <0.001 |
Self-transcendence | 80.8 | 2.4 | 76.9 | 1.8 | 68.6 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 0.011 |
UPDRS-3 | 16.2 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 31.1 | <0.001 |
Substantia nigra echogenicity left (cm2) | 0.21 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.2 | 0.03 | 1.9 | 0.111 |
Substantia nigra echogenicity right (cm2) | 0.25 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 7.3 | <0.001 |