Table 3.

Means, Standard Deviations and Pearson Correlation Coefficients of the Three Variables

Variables	Means	SD	Correlation Matrix
			Severity of GI Symptoms	Illness Perception	Anxiety Symptoms
Severity of GI symptoms	7.83	5.08	–
Illness perception	37.82	11.48	0.321**	–
Anxiety symptoms	3.01	3.54	0.308**	0.317**	–

Note: **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).