Table 3.
Participant and Collateral Means and Standard Deviations on the PSWQ-A for each Demographic Category and Relationships between Demographic Variables and Participant-Collateral Discrepancies on the PSWQ-A
| Participant (P) PSWQ-A |
Collateral (C) PSWQ-A |
C-P discrepancy on the PSWQ-A |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | n | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | za | p |
| Participant Gender | ||||||
| Male | 18 | 19.3 (7.1) | 23.0 (8.5) | 3.7 (7.3) | −1.7 | 0.09 |
| Female | 23 | 16.3 (6.7) | 23.3 (8.3) | 7.0 (6.0) | ||
| Collateral Gender | ||||||
| Male | 8 | 12.4 (3.5) | 15.9 (6.7) | 3.5 (7.0) | −1.1 | 0.28 |
| Female | 33 | 18.9 (7.0) | 25.0 (7.7) | 6.1 (6.7) | ||
| Relationship Typeb | ||||||
| Spousal | 20 | 17.3 (7.9) | 20.6 (8.0) | 3.3 (6.0) | 1.7 | 0.09 |
| Filial | 18 | 18.1 (6.4) | 25.2 (7.3) | 7.1 (6.3) | ||
| Living Arrangement | ||||||
| Living together | 29 | 17.4 (7.7) | 22.2 (7.7) | 4.8 (6.5) | 1.0 | 0.32 |
| Living separately | 12 | 18.3 (4.9) | 25.7 (9.5) | 7.4 (7.2) |
PSWQ-A = Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Abbreviated
a
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U tests of between-group differences in discrepancies between participants and collaterals.
b
Three dyads whose relationship belonged in neither category (n = 3) were excluded from this analysis.