Believing processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with bipolar disorder: An exploratory study

Table 4 Bipolar group: Bonferroni adjusted Spearman correlations between the parameters of the Believing Questionnaire and the psychiatric symptoms

	BSI-18	Somatization2	Depression2	Anxiety2	BDI-II	ASRM	PSQI
Positive propositions	-0.66c	-0.38b	-0.72c	-0.56c	-0.56c	0.20	-0.51c
Negative propositions	0.54c	0.38b	-0.60c	0.42b	0.63c	-0.21	0.54c
Indifferent propositions	0.28a	0.11	0.25	0.32a	-0.05	-0.02	0.06
Positive emotions	-0.70c	-0.47b	-0.71c	-0.62c	-0.79c	0.09	-0.59c
Negative emotions	0.66c	0.44b	0.68c	0.58c	0.77c	-0.14	0.62c
Indifferent emotions	0.07	-0.04	-0.04	0.19	-0.10	0.10	-0.22
Incongruence1	0.28a	0.18	0.31a	0.18	0.20	-0.16	0.17
Certainty	-0.20	-0.21	-0.17	-0.12	-0.17	0.03	-0.16
Mightiness	0.03	-0.05	0.08	0.07	0.09	0.05	0.08

¹Incongruence between the propositions and the emotions.

²Subscales of the BSI-18.

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

Bold letters: Bonferroni corrected significant correlations. BSI-18: Brief-Symptom Inventory-18; BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory; ASRM: Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale; PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.