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Table 4 Correlations matrix of the derived factors/items of Chinese IPQ-Ra

From: How newly diagnosed HIV-positive men who have sex with men look at HIV/AIDS – validation of the Chinese version of the revised illness perception questionnaire

  

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15

1

Emotional Response

1.00

−0.21**

−0.46***

0.38***

0.75***

−0.12

0.16*

0.43***

0.30***

0.03

0.15*

0.23***

0.25***

0.04

0.23***

2

Treatment Control

 

1.00

−0.06

−0.08

−0.16*

0.51***

−0.09

−0.23***

−0.17*

0.26***

0.07

−0.02

−0.01

−0.10

0.11

3

Illness Coherence

  

1.00

−0.12

−0.34***

−0.01

−0.30**

−0.23***

−0.23***

−0.22***

−0.38***

−0.26***

−0.14*

−0.09

−0.05

4

Timeline-acute/chronic

   

1.00

0.38***

−0.08

0.08

0.1

0.06

0.11

0.05

0.06

0.06

−0.18**

0.07

5

Consequence

    

1.00

−0.08

0.10

0.30***

0.22***

0.05

0.14*

0.23***

0.27***

−0.03

0.16*

6

Personal Control

     

1.00

−0.20**

−0.14*

−0.10

0.20**

0.16*

−0.07

0.10

0.08

0.06

7

Helplessness

      

1.00

0.12

0.07

0.06

0.15*

0.21**

−0.03

0.18**

0.11

 

Causal attribution

               

8

God’s punishment

       

1.00

0.76***

0.05

0.18**

0.25***

0.11

0.05

0.21**

9

God’s will

        

1.00

0.11

0.20**

0.27***

0.10

0.14*

0.29***

10

Carelessness

         

1.00

0.26***

0.20**

0.23***

−0.05

0.18**

11

Did not understand the risk

          

1.00

0.28***

0.11

0.02

0.09

12

Believed it could not happen to self

           

1.00

0.11

−0.04

0.18**

13

Being deceived

            

1.00

0.04

0.20**

14

Alcohol/drug use

             

1.00

0.18**

15

Chance/bad luck

              

1.00

  1. aThis analysis applied the bivariate correlation method. The Person correlation coefficients were shown in the table
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001