. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2011 Mar 17;21(5):531–540. doi: 10.1002/pon.1942

Table 2.

Hierarchical regression analyses predicting hypothesized outcome variables

Criterion variable	Breast Cancer-related Concerns (posttest)	Positive Reframing (posttest)	Emotional Well-being (posttest)
Block 1: Control Variables
Breast cancer concerns (pretest)	.57^***	-	-
Positive reframing (pretest)	-	.50^***	-
Emotional well-being (pretest)	-	-	.66^***
Incremental R² (%)	34.4	29.1	41.1
Block2: Socio-Demographics & Cancer Disease Variable
Age	−.22^**	.01	.04
Ethnicity	−.01	−.01	−.02
Education	.07	.01	.10
Live alone (Yes=1)	.16^*	−.05	−.12
Stage of cancer (late=1)	.06	.04	−.06
Incremental R² (%)	5.7	0.4	3.1
Block 3: Main Effect
Social support giving	.02	.16^*	−.09
Social support receiving	−.15^*	−.08	−.01
Incremental R² (%)	2.1	3.1	0.7
Total R² (%)	42.2	32.5	44.9

Note:

Cell entries refer to the final standardized regression coefficient.

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001;

Two-tailed; Listwise deletion; N=139–146 for Breast Cancer Concerns; N= 138–145 for Positive Reframing; N=138–146 for emotional well-being