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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 10.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2004 Apr;55(4):421–426. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.4.421

Table 3.

Regression analysis of predictors of the severity of grief among 33 persons with severe mental illness who reported the death of a loved onea

Variable Standardized beta SE
Male −.007 .415
Age −.113 .026
Member of an ethnic minority −.269 .585
High socioeconomic status .214 .442
Score on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale after the death eventb .255 .019
Assignment to an assertive community treatment program (versus clubhouse) .02 .497
Number of days in the project −.062 .001
Total number of days in which there was any service contact with the assigned programc −.398 .001
Number of situational factorsd −.675 .183
a

Full Model: F=4.88, df=9, 32, p=.001; adjusted R2=.521

b

Possible scores range from 30 to 210, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

c

t=−2.554, df=9, 32, p<.001

d

t=−4.568, df=9, 32, p<.001