Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes

Table 4 Correlations with beliefs in medicines scale for the old and new domains

Old Domains [7]	Pearson’s Correlation Necessity Beliefs	Pearson’s Correlation Concern Beliefs	New Domains [9]	Pearson’s Correlation Necessity Beliefs	Pearson’s Correlation Concern Beliefs
Consequences	0.274**	0.428**	External Consequences	0.211**	0.393**
Consequences	0.274**	0.428**	Internal Consequences	0.256**	0.276**
Personal Control	0.159*	0.055	Control	0.221**	−0.007
Treatment Control	0.073	−0.180*	Control	0.221**	−0.007
Illness Coherence	0.014	−0.313**	Illness Interpretation	0.072	0.153*
Emotional Representations	0.337**	0.634**	Present Emotional Representations	0.314**	0.634**
Emotional Representations	0.337**	0.634**	Future Emotional Representations	0.317**	0.515**
None			Sociocultural Influences	0.142	0.526**
Timeline	0.279**	0.209**	Timeline	0.266**	0.302**
Timeline Cyclical	0.293**	0.429**	Timeline Cyclical	0.326**	0.439**

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