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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2009 Feb 15;151C(1):13–21. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.30194

TABLE III.

Spearman Correlations of Demographic and Psychological Factors With Religious/Spiritual Measures

Frequency of church attendance Importance of faith Frequency of prayer Importance of beliefs in coping with stress Collaborative coping score Self-directing coping score Deferring coping score
Age 0.0236 −0.2568a 0.1747 0.1734 0.0868 −0.0929 0.1229
Gender −0.0795 0.0260 −0.1165 −0.0447 −0.1275 0.1090 −0.1330
Marital status 0.0761 −0.0985 −0.0886 0.0872 0.0130 −0.1156 −0.0446
Income 0.1355 0.0194 0.0004 0.0206 0.0190 −0.1328 −0.0618
Education 0.0539 0.1428 −0.1611 −0.0424 −0.0181 −0.1560 −0.1366
First degree relative with breast/ovarian cancer 0.0188 0.0540 0.2082a 0.0693 0.2120a −0.0678 0.1201
Self-reported health status −0.463 −0.0083 −0.0322 −0.0052 −0.0438 −0.0766 −0.1093
Perceived personal risk of BRCA1 0.0000 −0.0185 0.0419 0.1010 0.1646 −0.0723 0.1444
Perceived familial cancer risk −0.0944 −0.0272 0.0133 0.0412 0.0664 −0.1137 0.0354
Perceived control −0.0824 0.1478 0.0429 −0.0079 0.0399 0.0426 0.0698
Perceived coping self-efficacy −0.0190 −0.0017 −0.0342 −0.0305 −0.0461 −0.0682 −0.0411
Cancer worry −0.1305 −0.0010 −0.0410 −0.0025 0.0432 0.0361 0.1505
CESD Score −0.0794 0.0870 0.0495 0.0840 −0.1107 0.1637 −0.0597
a

P < 0.05.