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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aging Ment Health. 2011 Apr;15(3):354–363. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2010.519325

Table 5.

OLS Regression Predicting the Effect of Social Contact and the Contextual Factors on Subscales of Grief

Anxiety Despair Shock
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
(Constant) 2.52 2.52 2.51 2.45 2.44 2.57 2.72 2.71 2.86
Frequency of social contact with friends/ relatives, W1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.02 −0.12 −0.04 −0.04 −0.19
Contextual factors
 Support from friends/relatives, W1 −0.18** −0.12 −0.18** −0.16** −0.15** −0.16** −0.17** −0.13 −0.17**
 Congruence between preferred and actual contact, W1 −0.15 −0.15 −0.14 −0.23 −0.23 −0.45* −0.37** −0.36** −0.61**
Control variables
 Age, W1 −0.02 −0.02 −0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 −0.01 −0.01 −0.01
 Sex (1 = female; 0 = male) 0.41** 0.40** 0.41** 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.25 0.25
 Race (1 = white; 0 = black) 0.18 0.19 0.18 0.51*** 0.51*** 0.55*** 0.12 0.12 0.16
 Years of education, BL 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Number of children, BL 0.00 −0.01 0.00 −0.06 −0.06 −0.06 0.01 0.00 0.00
Contact × Support −0.08 −0.02 −0.05
Contact × Congruence 0.01 0.19 −0.21
Adjusted R2 0.09 0.09 0.08 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.07 0.07 0.07
Anger Yearning Intrusive thoughts
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
(Constant) 3.65 3.64 3.83 2.97 2.96 2.92 2.46 2.45 2.49
Frequency of social contact with friends/ relatives, W1 −0.02 −0.02 −0.22* −0.05 −0.05 −0.01 0.10 0.10 0.07
Contextual factors
 Support from friends/relatives, W1 −0.07 0.00 −0.07 −0.04 0.04 −0.04 −0.13* −0.03 −0.13*
 Congruence between preferred and actual contact, W1 −0.33*** −0.33*** −0.65*** −0.15 −0.14 −0.08 −0.45*** −0.44*** −0.49*
Control variables
 Age, W1 −0.03*** −0.03*** −0.03*** 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
 Sex (1 = female; 0 = male) −0.26** −0.28** −0.27** −0.17 −0.19 −0.17 0.03 0.01 0.03
 Race (1 = white; 0 = black) 0.39** 0.40** 0.45*** 0.31* 0.32* 0.29 −0.07 −0.06 −0.06
 Years of education, BL 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 −0.02 −0.02 −0.02
 Number of children, BL −0.03 −0.04 −0.04 −0.10** −0.10*** −0.10** −0.06 −0.07 −0.06
Contact × Support −0.08* −0.09 −0.11*
Contact × Congruence 0.26** −0.06 0.04
Adjusted R2 0.14 0.16 0.17 0.06 0.07 0.05 0.06 0.08 0.06
*

p.05

**

p.01

***

p.001