Associations between Psychosocial and Physiological Factors and Diabetes Health Indicators in Asian and Pacific Islander Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 2

Pearson’s correlation coefficients of variables used in the SEM.

Variables	BMI	Diet	Exercise and foot care	Blood glucose and medication	Depression	HbA1c	General health	Diabetes quality of life
BMI	1.00	−0.22	−0.49*	−0.15	0.41*	0.37*	−0.53*	−0.35*
Diet	−0.22	1.00	0.29*	0.19*	−0.20*	−0.19*	0.12	0.21*
Exercise and foot care	−0.49*	0.29*	1.00	0.17*	−0.14*	−0.09	0.23*	0.17*
Blood glucose and medication	−0.15	0.19*	0.17*	1.00	−0.06	0.04	0.05	0.03
Depression	0.41*	−0.20*	−0.14*	−0.06	1.00	0.21*	−0.62*	−0.49*
HbA1c	0.37*	−0.19*	−0.09	0.04	0.21*	1.00	−0.35*	−0.28*
General health	−0.53*	0.12	0.23*	0.05	−0.62*	−0.35*	1.00	0.58*
Diabetes quality of life	−0.35*	0.21*	0.17*	0.03	−0.49*	−0.28*	0.58*	1.00

∗Denotes significant Pearson correlation coefficients with P value <0.05.