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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 3.

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
Negative RC −0.171 0.046 −0.094 0.300 −0.052 0.541 −0.209 0.016 −0.209 0.011 0.023 0.792
Self-efficacy 0.162 0.048 0.086 0.318 0.026 0.752 0.063 0.441 0.211 0.007 0.148 0.073
History depr diagnosis −0.021 0.803 −0.037 0.676 0.081 0.342 0.058 0.493 −0.083 0.301 −0.032 0.707
Race (white) −0.125 0.188 0.038 0.708 −0.115 0.227 −0.037 0.694 −0.248 0.006 −0.177 0.065
Gender (female) −0.006 0.937 0.015 0.857 −0.100 0.212 −0.148 0.064 0.054 0.472 0.116 0.147
Years of schooling 0.218 0.018 0.096 0.326 0.025 0.783 0.148 0.108 0.168 0.054 0.249 0.008
Age (years) 0.124 0.146 −0.002 0.979 −0.076 0.374 0.113 0.182 0.180 0.026 0.109 0.202
Parkland Care (Texas) 0.155 0.102 0.066 0.510 −0.363 0.000 0.061 0.520 0.256 0.005 0.156 0.101
Total R2 0.14 0.000 0.035 0.739 0.13 0.008 0.14 0.005 0.23 0.000 0.12 0.012

depr, depression; RC, religious coping.