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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Palliat Med. 2006 Jun;9(3):646–657. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2006.9.646

Table 2.

Summary of Adjusted Model of Positive Religious Coping Predicting Quality of Life of Patients with Advanced Cancer

Variable Total QOL Physical Physical symptoms Psychological Existential Perceived support






β p β p β p β p β p β p
Positive RC 0.173 0.043 −0.043 0.635 −0.220 0.009 0.124 0.152 0.255 0.005 0.285 0.001
Self-efficacy 0.162 0.049 0.090 0.298 0.030 0.711 0.071 0.391 0.210 0.007 0.132 0.096
History depr diagnosis 0.037 0.657 −0.029 0.750 0.050 0.549 0.119 0.165 −0.010 0.902 0.007 0.933
Race (white) −0.067 0.482 0.040 0.695 −0.160 0.092 0.019 0.843 −0.176 0.053 −0.124 0.181
Gender (female) −0.027 0.733 0.019 0.824 −0.072 0.360 −0.169 0.039 0.028 0.714 0.091 0.243
Years of schooling 0.276 0.002 0.115 0.225 0.015 0.861 0.215 0.018 0.240 0.005 0.263 0.003
Age (years) 0.130 0.130 0.002 0.979 −0.065 0.439 0.114 0.190 0.188 0.020 0.113 0.172
Parkland Care (Texas) 0.121 0.206 0.070 0.491 −0.330 0.001 0.032 0.744 0.213 0.019 0.112 0.226
Total R2 0.138 0.006 0.03 0.856 0.17 0.001 0.12 0.022 0.24 0.000 0.19 0.000

depr, depression; RC, religious coping.