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. 2014 Oct;77(4):278–282. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.07.018

Table 2.

Multiple linear regressions of optimism on affective pain, pain intensity, and physical symptoms 6–8 weeks after CABG surgery. The bold entries indicate that these models are statistically significant (i.e. p < .05).

Model B SE β CI 95% p
Affective pain
Age and sex adjusted − 0.097 0.043 − 0.162 − 0.182 to − 0.012 .025
Fully adjusteda − 0.064 0.047 − 0.106 − 0.156–0.029 .178



Pain intensity
Age and sex adjusted − 0.111 0.045 − 0.177 − 0.199 to − 0.023 .014
Fully adjusteda − 0.100 0.049 − 0.150 − 0.196 to − 0.004 .042



Physical symptoms
Age and sex adjusted − 0.368 0.117 − 0.222 − 0.598 to − 0.138 .002
Fully adjusteda − 0.287 0.127 − 0.173 − 0.537 to − 0.036 .025
a

Fully adjusted model: ethnicity, smoking status, BMI, diabetes status, number of grafts, number of chronic diseases, cardiopulmonary bypass, EuroSCORE, NES.