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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Child Care Health Dev. 2009 Mar;35(2):227–233. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00920.x

Table 4.

ANCOVA with parental number of acute stress symptoms as dependent variable

F d.f. η2 P < 0.05 Coefficients estimate (β)
Type of child surgery 12.72 2 0.153 0.001 Minor vs. Day
3.63, t(152) = 0.26, P = 0.049
Major vs. Day
5.31, t(152) = 3.52, P = 0.001
Parent’s gender 1.33 1 0.009 ns
Parent’s age 0.20 1 0.001 ns
Parent’s level of education 7.39 1 0.050 0.007 −1.19
Child’s age 0.19 1 0.001 ns
Number of social contacts 13.33 1 0.086 0.001 0.03
Parental trait anxiety 8.96 1 0.059 0.003 0.09
PHLoC: internal influence 0.67 1 0.005 ns
PHLoC: external influence 6.70 1 0.045 0.01 −0.59
Group error 133

R2 = 0.465 (adjusted R2 = 0.419).

d.f., degree of freedom; ns, not significant; PHLoC, parent health locus of control.