Table 3.

Comparison of cask scores between female and male carers

	Female carers (n = 139)	Male carers (n = 109)	B(Estimate)	SE	df	t	p-value	ICC	Cohen’s d
CASK total score	68.22 (12.07)	68.04 (11.53)	0.36	1.28	127.29	0.28	0.780	0.36	0.03
Bigger Picture	76.11 (13.28)	73.87 (12.57)	2.14	1.51	135.56	1.42	0.158	0.24	0.16
Self-Care	54.78 (19.33)	62.98 (16.96)	-7.89	1.85	124.10	-4.26	< 0.001	0.46	-0.43
Biting-Your-Tongue	58.23 (18.36)	57.83 (17.03)	0.62	2.03	136.65	0.30	0.762	0.28	0.03
Insight and Acceptance	66.31 (16.85)	72.76 (14.75)	-6.55	1.87	130.13	-3.51	0.001	0.23	-0.41
Emotional Intelligence	72.07 (15.25)	68.48 (17.51)	3.92	1.88	125.58	2.08	0.039	0.25	0.24
Frustration Tolerance	71.21 (12.96)	66.48 (14.96)	4.89	1.56	134.55	3.13	0.002	0.29	0.35

Values are presented as Mean and Standard Deviation (SD). Observations nested within 163 dyads. Model fit using Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) with Satterthwaite’s approximation for degrees of freedom (df). B represents the fixed effect estimate for sex; a negative value indicates higher scores for male carers, while a positive value indicates higher scores for female carers. ICC = Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, representing the proportion of variance at the dyad level. Effect sizes are reported using Cohen’s d