Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics of Variables

	Mean	Standard deviation	Range
Communal copinga
Patient	0.002	0.84
Spouse	−0.001	0.81
Depressed mood
Patient	1.49	0.78	1–5
Spouse	1.40	0.75	1–5
Happy mood
Patient	1.03	1.03	1–5
Spouse	3.76	0.99	1–5
Angry mood
Patient	1.55	0.83	1–5
Spouse	3.30	1.12	1–5
Diet	0.49	0.50	1–5
Exercise	0.84	0.36	Yes/no
Medication adherence			Yes/no
Perceived emotional responsiveness
Patient	3.41	0.66	1–4
Spouse	3.25	0.66	1–4

^aThis measure was created by standardizing two items and taking the average of them.