Perceptions of postnatal care: factors associated with primiparous mothers perceptions of postnatal communication and care

Table 2 Correlations between personality traits and communication and satisfaction ratings and correlations between communication measures and total satisfaction

		Overall communication	Heath visitor communication	Midwives communication	Total satisfaction
Agreeableness	Pearson correlation	.277^**	.259^*	.245^*	.339^**
	Sig. (1-tailed)	.010	.015	.039	.004
	N	71	71	71	71
Conscientiousness	Pearson correlation	.303^**	.331^**	.328^**	.305^**
	Sig. (1-tailed)	.005	.002	.005	.010
	N	71	71	71	71
Emotional stability	Pearson correlation	.306^**	.226^*	.363^**	.386^**
Emotional stability	Sig. (1-tailed)	.005	.029	.002	.001
Satisfaction	N	71	71	71	71
	Pearson correlation	.716**	.672**	.761**
	Sig. (1-tailed)	.000	.000	.000
	N	71	71	71

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