Table 2.

Summary of the linear and quadratic regressions of religious comfort and struggles and death anxiety on centrality (N = 129) among patients hospitalized due to cancer (N = 129); the research conducted in hospitals in Poland, 2017–2018

Variable dependent/independent	Linear model					Quadratic model
	B	SE	t	R2	F(1, 127)	B	SE	t	R2	F(2, 127)	ΔR2	FΔ(1, 126)
Comfort				0.64	227.53***				0.64	113.41***	0.001	0.39
intercept	–2.11	0.655	–3.22**			–3.16	1.797	1.8
centrality	2.54	0.168	15.08***			3.20	1.064	1.06**
centrality2						–0.10	0.154	0.15
Struggles				0.01	0.65				0.11	7.84**	0.11	14.97***
intercept	1.19	0.556	2.15*			–4.01	1.443	1.44**
centrality	0.11	0.143	0.8			3.38	0.855	0.85***
centrality2						–0.48	0.124	0.12***
Fear/guilt				0.03	4.06*				0.06	4.30*	0.03	4.43*
intercept	0.47	0.795	0.59			–3.73	2.147	2.15
centrality	0.41	0.204	2.01*			3.05	1.271	1.27*
centrality2						–0.39	0.184	0.18*
Negative emotions				0.03	4.13*				0.14	10.01***	0.11	15.41***
intercept	1.93	0.554	3.48***			–3.32	1.438	1.44*
centrality	–0.29	0.142	–2.03*			3.01	0.851	0.85***
centrality2						–0.48	0.123	0.12***
Negative social				0.01	0.89				0.08	5.40**	0.07	9.86**
intercept	1.40	0.957	1.46			–6.00	2.532	2.53*
centrality	0.23	0.246	0.94			4.88	1.499	1.50**
centrality2						–0.68	0.217	0.22**
Death anxiety				0.01	1.71				0.04	2.92	0.03	4.10*
intercept	1.01	0.544	1.86			–1.76	1.472	1.47
centrality	0.18	0.140	1.31			1.92	0.871	0.87*
centrality2						–0.26	0.126	0.13*

B – regression weight; F – F-test statistics; FΔ – F-test of the change statistics; R2 – coefficient of determination; ΔR2 –coefficient of determination change; SE – standard error; t – t-test statistics.

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001.