Table 4.

Relationship of each of the model variables and perception of cancer risk using the APIM

					95% Confidence interval for b
Effect	b	SE	t	p	Lower	Upper
Cancer type				0.04a
Ovarian vs breast	0.25	0.10	2.54	0.01	0.06	0.45
Multiple vs breast	0.19	0.16	1.15	0.25	−0.13	0.51
Years since diagnosis	0.02	0.02	1.01	0.31	−0.02	0.05
Relationship of partner				0.74a
Other vs mother	−0.07	0.23	−0.32	0.75	−0.53	0.38
Daughter vs mother	0.04	0.15	0.25	0.80	−0.26	0.33
Sister vs mother	−0.07	0.15	−0.49	0.63	−0.40	0.23
Relationship role
Survivor vs relative	−0.17	0.08	−2.14	0.03	−0.32	−0.01
Age
Actor effect	−0.01	0.003	−2.35	0.02	−0.01	−0.001
Partner effect	0.004	0.003	−1.45	0.15	−0.001	0.01
Education
Actor effect	0.05	0.04	1.241	0.22	−0.03	0.12
Partner effect	0.06	0.04	1.51	0.13	−0.02	0.13
Income
Actor effect	0.10	0.03	3.28	0.001	0.04	0.16
Partner effect	0.06	0.03	1.969	0.05	−0.0002	0.12
Marital status (married vs not married)
Actor effect	0.14	0.04	3.21	0.001	0.05	0.22
Partner effect	0.13	0.04	3.13	0.002	0.05	0.22
Race
Caucasian vs African-American	0.49	0.09	5.79	o0.001	0.33	0.66
Family history of cancer	0.74	0.20	3.68	o0.001	0.34	1.13
General self-efficacy
Actor effect	0.004	0.005	0.85	0.40	−0.005	0.01
Partner effect	0.002	0.005	0.50	0.62	−0.007	0.01
Family communication
Actor effect	0.02	0.01	1.81	0.07	−0.002	0.04
Partner effect	0.02	0.01	1.56	0.12	−0.004	0.04
Monitor/blunting
Actor effect	−0.01	0.01	−0.52	0.61	−0.03	0.02
Partner effect	0.001	0.02	0.07	0.94	−0.03	0.03
Perceived social support
Actor effect	0.004	0.003	1.17	0.24	−0.002	0.01
Partner effect	0.003	0.003	0.77	0.44	−0.004	0.01
Appraisal of cancer worries
Actor effect	0.18	0.05	3.42	0.001	0.08	0.28
Partner effect	0.04	0.05	0.72	0.47	−0.07	0.14

^aSignificance of overall effect.