Table 3.

Secondary Analyses: Regression models of hope and hopelessness predicting cortisol and IL-6 in ovarian cancer patients.

Variable	Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients	p	Variable	Unstandardized Coefficients	Standardized Coefficients		p
Nocturnal Cortisol1	B	Std. Error	Beta		Plasma IL-63	B	Std. Error	Beta
(Constant)	0.711	0.623		0.256	(Constant)	0.560	0.323		0.085
Age	0.009	0.006	0.128	0.157	Age	−0.002	0.003	−0.040	0.526
Stage	0.097	0.169	0.050	0.568	Stage	0.219	0.093	0.147	0.020
BMI	0.011	0.011	0.090	0.301	BMI	0.009	0.005	0.104	0.097
CESD depress subscale	−0.012	0.026	−0.047	0.643	CESD depress subscale	−0.005	0.013	−0.026	0.715
Hopelessness	−0.042	0.123	−0.032	0.736	Hopelessness	0.090	0.052	0.122	0.084
Hope Cortisol Slope 2	−0.210	0.087	−0.233	0.017	Hope Ascites IL-64	−0.067	0.041	−0.112	0.103
(Constant)	−0.077	0.038		0.045	(Constant)	4.335	0.480		<0.001
Age	− 1.179E–5	0.000	−0.003	0.975	Age	−0.005	0.004	−0.116	0.192
Stage	0.004	0.011	0.031	0.733	Stage	−0.133	0.147	−0.081	0.365
BMI	−0.001	0.001	−0.101	0.259	BMI	−0.004	0.007	−0.046	0.606
CESD depress subscale	−0.002	0.002	−0.134	0.185	CESD depress subscale	−0.003	0.017	−0.022	0.838
Hopelessness	0.017	0.008	0.211	0.031	Hopelessness	0.056	0.059	0.097	0.347
Hope	−0.008	0.005	−0.152	0.118	Hope	−0.161	0.053	−0.282	0.003

Notes:

¹n = 143,

²n = 138,

³n = 264,

⁴n = 132; Stage is early/advanced, hope and hopelessness are z-scored BMI = Body Mass Index CESD = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (depressive subscale).