Table 2.

Relationship of each of the model variables and appraisal of cancer worries using the APIM

					95% Confi- dence interval for b
Effect	b	SE	t	p	Lower	Upper
Cancer type				0.89a
Ovarian vs breast	− 0.06	0.11	−0.48	0.63	−0.28	0.17
Multiple vs breast	−0.01	0.19	−0.05	0.96	−0.38	0.36
Years since diagnosis	−0.02	0.02	−1.22	0.23	−0.06	0.01
Relationship of relativeb				0.02a
Other vs mother	−0.71	0.25	−2.89	0.01	−1.21	−0.21
Daughter vs mother	−0.38	0.16	−2.32	0.02	−0.71	−0.06
Sister vs mother	−0.46	0.17	−2.75	0.01	−0.79	−0.13
Relationship role
Survivor vs relative	0.22	0.09	2.45	0.02	0.04	0.39
Age
Actor effect	−0.005	0.004	−1.40	0.16	−0.01	0.002
Partner effect	−0.01	0.004	−1.77	0.08	−0.01	0.001
Education
Actor effect	−0.09	0.04	−2.20	0.03	−0.17	−0.01
Partner effect	0.01	0.04	0.23	0.82	−0.07	0.10
Income
Actor effect	0.02	0.04	0.43	0.67	−0.05	0.08
Partner effect	−0.02	0.04	−0.47	0.64	−0.09	0.05
Marital status (married vs not married)
Actor effect	0.11	0.05	2.24	0.03	0.01	0.20
Partner effect	−0.02	0.05	−0.35	0.72	−0.11	0.08
Race
Caucasian vs African-American	0.14	0.11	1.37	0.17	−0.06	0.35
Family history of cancer	0.03	0.24	0.13	0.90	−0.44	0.50
General self-efficacy
Actor effect	−0.01	0.01	−2.39	0.02	−0.02	−0.002
Partner effect	0.004	0.01	0.83	0.41	−0.01	0.01
Family communication
Actor effect	−0.01	0.01	−0.75	0.46	−0.03	0.01
Partner effect	−0.01	0.01	−0.75	0.45	−0.03	0.01
Coping style
Actor effect	0.03	0.01	2.10	0.04	0.002	0.05
Partner effect	0.01	0.02	0.60	0.55	−0.02	0.04
Perceived social support
Actor effect	0.001	0.004	0.40	0.69	−0.01	0.01
Partner effect	−0.002	0.004	−0.63	0.53	−0.01	0.005
Perception of cancer risk
Actor effect	0.22	0.07	3.45	0.001	0.09	0.35
Partner effect	0.04	0.07	0.58	0.56	−0.09	0.17

^aSignificance of overall effect.

^bInteraction effect.