Table 3.

Correlations among sociodemographic – medical characteristics, anxiety and coping strategies (n = 161).

Variables	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age (1)	1	.00	-.17*	-.12	.13	.46**	.21**	.05	.01	.09	.21**	.11	.06	.12	-.08	-.18*	.10	-.03	-.14	.05	-.01	.13
Gender (2)		1	.46**	.19*	-.00	-.02	-.13	.38**	-.02	-.08	-.10	-.10	-.08	-.29	-.09	-.10	-06	-.28**	.02	-.27**	.03	.10
Educational status (3)			1	.63**	-.07	-.13	-.15	.44**	-.00	-.24**	.06	.02	-.02	-.24**	-.24**	-.01	.01	-.20**	.01	-.29**	-.11	-.04
Monthly income (4)				1	-.13	-.08	-.03	.31**	-.05	-.30**	-.05	-.03	-.09	-.26**	-.08	.04	-.09	-.04	.01	-.23**	-.15	-.09
Family Type (5)					1	.16*	.01	-.03	.04	.00	.00	.23**	-.01	.17*	-.03	-.05	.06	.03	-.04	-.09	-.05	.21**
Medical characteristics
Type of Diabetes (6)						1	-.01	-.15	.28**	.04	.14	.09	.01	.16*	.14	-.14	.17*	-.06	-.14	.00	-.11	-.26**
Duration of Diabetes (7)							1	.03	-.04	.03	.00	.06	-.15*	-.18*	-.33**	.04	.06	-.07	-.04	-.02	-.01	.15
Trait Anxiety (8)								1	-.30**	-.39**	-.05	-.19*	-.13	-.05	-.29**	-.08	-.29**	-.23**	-.12	.01	.02	-.00
Coping Strategies
Problem-focused strategies
Acceptance (9)									1	.26**	.24**	.35**	.05	.02	.11	.09	.17*	-.08	.01	-.20*	-.03	-.15*
Religion (10)										1	.03	.26**	.11	.02	.24**	-.10	.21**	.09	.08	.06	.05	-.03
Planning (11)											1	.31**	.09	.32**	.04	.04	.17*	-.12	.07	-.26**	-.08	-.06
Positive Reframing (12)												1	.29**	.32**	.25**	.13	.33**	.16*	.09	-.12	-.00	-.04
Using Instrumental Support (13)													1	.14	.31**	-.13	.09	.50	.34**	.07	-.16*	.01
Active Coping (14)														1	.23**	.10	.17*	.02	-.12	.01	.14	.02