Table 2.
Significant relationships of personality traits, reassurance and threat with coping behaviors.
| Response | Acceptance | Active | Emotional support | Planning | PRG | Instrumental support | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed term | DF | β | F prob | β | F prob | β | F prob | β | F prob | β | F prob | β | F prob |
| Openness/intellect | 1 | 0.085 | <0.001 | 0.11 | <0.001 | 0.079 | <0.001 | 0.087 | 0.005 | ||||
| Conscientiousness | 1 | 0.051 | 0.050 | 0.015 | 0.027 | ||||||||
| Extroversion | 1 | 0.095 | 0.028 | ||||||||||
| Agreeableness | 1 | -0.031 | 0.023 | 0.14 | <0.001 | 0.18 | 0.023 | 0.25 | <0.001 | 0.33 | <0.001 | 0.11 | 0.010 |
| Reassurance | 1 | 0.06 | 0.002 | 0.05 | 0.013 | 0.023 | |||||||
| Threat | 1 | 0.17 | <0.001 | 0.11 | <0.001 | 0.14 | <0.001 | 0.15 | <0.001 | 0.14 | <0.001 | ||
| Threat x time | 3 | 0 -0.12 -0.02 -0.12 |
0.037 | ||||||||||
Relationship of personality traits, reassurance and threat to coping behaviors over time. Significant results only are shown. None of the personality factors or reassurance showed significant interaction with time. Significant interaction between threat and time generates a standardized coefficient for each time point in relation to the baseline (at diagnosis) measurement.