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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Gerontologist. 2005 Aug;45(4):445–455. doi: 10.1093/geront/45.4.445

Table 1.

Estimated Correlations between Subscales

Problematic
Caregiver
Leadership
Supportive
Functioning
Enmeshment Care Recipient
Disengagement
Identified
Patienthood
Expressed
Positive
Affect
Expressed
Sadness
Expressed
Anger
Problematic caregiver leadership  —
Supportive functioning  .545
Enmeshment  .210 .329   —
Care recipient disengagement  .305 .001 −.022  —
Identified patienthood −.040 .133 −.012 −.113   —
Expressed positive affect −.112 .083  .922***a −.331* −.087  —
Expressed sadnes  .245 .302 −.129  .009  .592*** −.261**
Expressed anger  .433 .192  .088  .084  .298** −.243* .324**
*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001.

a

Statistical significance was calculated in Mplus by dividing the estimate of the covariance by the standard error of the estimate (a t test). Note that using the Fisher Z test, any correlation that is greater than .164 in absolute value is significantly different than zero at the .05 level.