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Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2014 Jul 4;22(12):3209–3217. doi: 10.1007/s00520-014-2334-9

Table 2.

Inter-correlations, Means, and SDs of the Study Variables

Variables	1	2	3	4
1.Reframing coping	.15	.06	.29^**	−.24^*
2.Social support coping	.31^**	.26^*	.12	−.08
3.Resilience characteristics	.44^***	.25^*	.03	−.44^***
4.Psychological distress	−.36^***	−.29^**	−.54^***	.57^***

Mean(SD)
Survivors	29(5)	23(7)	4(1)	20(12)
Spouses	30(5)	24(7)	4(1)	22(11)

Paired t	−1.80	−0.42	0.97	−1.77

p<0.05,

^**

p<0.01,

^***

p<0.001; correlation coefficients above each diagonal correspond to spouses, and coefficients below each diagonal correspond to survivors.