Table II.
Bivariate Correlations Between Parent and Child Variables
| Predictors | Full sample |
Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer |
Control |
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| CDI | SCARED | UCLA | CDI | SCARED | UCLA | CDI | SCARED | UCLA | |
| Parent distress | |||||||||
| BSI depression | .10* | .10* | .13* | .18** | .22*** | .27*** | −.03 | −.08 | −.10 |
| BSI anxiety | .07 | .07 | .04 | .09 | .13*a | .09 | .04 | .004a | −.04 |
| BSI global severity index | .08 | .08 | .10* | .11 | .16* | .19** | .02 | −.05 | −.06 |
| IES-R post-traumatic stress | .04 | −.03 | .04 | .08 | .09 | .16** | −.04 | −.19* | −.16 |
| Child life events, lifetime | .30*** | .34*** | .34*** | .33*** | .39*** | .33*** | .27** | .31*** | .38*** |
Note. Partial correlation coefficients, controlling for child age, child gender, parent gender, and family socioeconomic status, are reported. For the cancer group only, relapse status was also controlled.
BSI = Brief Symptom Inventory, CDI = Children's Depression Inventory; IES-R = Impact of Events Scale - Revised; SCARED = Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders; UCLA = University of California at Los Angeles Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index.
aDid not significantly differ between cancer and control groups, based on Fisher's r-to-z transformation.
*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.