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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2008 Aug;17(8):812–821. doi: 10.1002/pon.1373

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for distress, social support, and communal coping indices (N = 65)

Psychological distressa
Anxiety M = 47.80 (SD = 8.44)
Somatization M = 44.09 (SD = 5.88)
Depression M = 46.26 (SD = 8.63)
Support function Size Reciprocity percent (%) Shared supports

Information exchange M = 13.43 (SD = 7.10) 86 M = 4.38 (SD = 3.22)
Tangible assistance M = 7.17 (SD = 4.23) 41 M = 1.03 (SD = 1.35)
Emotional support M = 8.34 (SD = 4.64) 65 M = 1.77 (SD = 2.19)
Multiplexity M = 4.55 (SD = 3.37) 31 M = 0.58 (SD = 0.92)

M, mean; SD, standard deviation.

a

General population norms: M = 50, SD = 10.