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Published in final edited form as: Hisp J Behav Sci. 2011 Feb 1;33(1):71–87. doi: 10.1177/0739986310393628

Table 3.

Prayer to the Saints or the Virgin and Health (N = 795)

	Dependent Variables
Independent Variables	Church Attendance	Belief in Prayer	Frequency of Prayer	God-Mediated Control	Optimism	Health
Age	−.105^**^a (−.043)^b	.094^** (.010)	.079^** (.012)	.139^*** (.007)	−.046 (−.004)	.021 (.002)
Sex	−.175^*** (−.953)	−.143^*** (−.203)	−.114^*** (−.227)	−.115^** (−.080)	.053 (.054)	.036 (.040)
Education	.054 (.037)	−.018 (−.003)	.010 (.002)	.072 (.006)	.048 (.006)	.171^*** (.024)
Marital status	.045 (.249)	.054 (.077)	.001 (.003)	.075^* (.053)	−.014 (−.014)	.013 (.015)
Church attendance		.147^*** (.038)	.126^*** (.046)	.045 (.006)	.014 (.003)	.046 (.009)
Belief in prayer			.505^*** (.706)	.204^*** (.099)	.333^*** (.237)	−.086 (−.067)
Frequency of prayer				.132^** (.046)	−.195^*** (−.099)	.068 (.038)
God-mediating control					.412^*** (.605)	−.027 (−.044)
Optimism						.262^*** (.286)
Multiple R²	.044	.052	.337	.155	.282	.097

^a

Standardized regression

^b

Metric (unstandardized) regression coefficient

^*

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001