Table 2.

Correlations Among Education, Pain Variables, and Coping

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.
1. Education
2. Pain severity	–.38**
3. Interference	–.30**	.61**
4. Physical disability	–.36**	.43**	.45**
5. Psychosocial disability	–.38**	.48**	.46**	.63**
6. Diverting attention	–.14	.11	.09	.14	.09
7. Reinterpreting pain sensations	–.07	.18	.16	.13	.27**	.26**
8. Coping selfstatements	.15	–.10	–.15	–.25**	–.17	.30**	.22*
9. Ignoring pain sensations	.28**	–.13	–.21*	–.19	–.13	.10	.44**	.46**
10. Prayer and hoping	–.44**	.28**	.27**	.34**	.32**	.44**	.16	.23*	–.11

NOTE. N = 105 with the exception of N = 104 for correlations involving Ignoring Pain Sensations and Prayer and Hoping as 1 participant did not complete items in those subscales.

^*P < .05.

^**P < .01.