Correlations† among cognitive ability, health literacy, personality traits and household wealth
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Cognitive ability | – | |||||||
| 2. Health literacy | 0.29*** | – | ||||||
| 3. Conscientiousness | 0.13*** | 0.04* | – | |||||
| 4. Extraversion | 0.09** | −0.01 | 0.45*** | – | ||||
| 5. Openness | 0.16*** | 0.04* | 0.43*** | 0.59*** | – | |||
| 6. Neuroticism | −0.06** | −0.03 | −0.20*** | −0.18*** | −0.15*** | – | ||
| 7. Agreeableness | 0.01 | −0.04* | 0.42*** | 0.54*** | 0.40*** | −0.06** | – | |
| 8. Household wealth | 0.24*** | 0.14*** | 0.11*** | 0.06** | 0.11*** | −0.08** | 0.11*** | – |
†Spearman rank-order correlations.
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.