TABLE 5.

Bivariate Correlations Grouped by Disease Acceptance, Adjustment Variables, Disease Characteristics, Perceived Stress, Illness Perceptions, Health Care Utilization, and Missed Work (N=38)

Variables	Digestive Diseases Acceptance Questionnaire Subscales
	Activities Engagement	Symptom Tolerance
Perceived Disability Scale	−0.42*	−0.23
Brief Symptom Inventory	−0.64**	−0.30
IBDQ: Social functioning	0.47**	0.42*
IBDQ: Emotional functioning	0.74**	0.48**
SF12v2: Physical Component Summary	0.31	0.29
SF12v2: Mental Component Summary	0.69**	0.34*
Disease duration (in years)	0.37*	0.23
IBDQ: Bowel health	0.35*	0.21
IBDQ: Systemic health	0.46**	0.23
Abdominal pain severity	−0.34*	−0.21
Perceived stress	−0.61**	−0.20
IPQR: Timeline – chronicity	0.09	−0.02
IPQR: Personal control	−0.08	−0.06
IPQR: Treatment control	0.17	0.10
IPQR: Illness coherence	−0.12	0.15
IPQR: Cyclical nature	0.08	0.09
IPQR: Emotional representation	−0.52**	−0.71**
IPQR: Consequence	−0.51**	−0.70**
Physician visits	−0.48**	−0.41*
Hospitalizations	0.09	−0.25
History of surgeries	0.26	0.00
Missed work	−0.53**	−0.42*

IBDQ, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire; SF-12v2, Short Form Health Survey Version 2; IPQR, Illness Perceptions Questionnaire-Revised.

^**P < 0.01,

^*P < 0.05.