Table 5.
Decomposition of Association for Significant variables and Quality of Life (QOL)
| Variable | Type of Effect | Decomposition |
|---|---|---|
| Anxiety and QOL | Total Association | 0.214 |
| Total Effect | 0.08 | |
| Direct Effect | 0.08 | |
| Indirect Effect | NA | |
| Spurious Effect | 0.015 | |
| “(1) through Symptom Severity and self-efficacy” | 0.011 | |
| “(2) through self-efficacy, symptom severity and depression” | 0.004 | |
| Unanalyzed | 0 | |
| “(1) through age, symptom severity, self-efficacy, and depression” | 0 | |
| Depression and QOL | Total Association | -0.66 |
| Total Effect | -0.095 | |
| Direct Effect | -0.246 | |
| Indirect Effect | 0.151 | |
| (1) through self-efficacy | 0.162 | |
| “(2) through Anxiety and self-efficacy" | -0.011 | |
| “(2) through self-efficacy, symptom severity and depression” | 0.004 | |
| Spurious Effect | 0.021 | |
| “(1) through Symptom Severity, self-efficacy and Anxiety” | -0.001 | |
| “(2) through symptom severity and Self-efficacy” | 0.022 | |
| Self-efficacy and QOL | Total Association | 0.651 |
| Total Effect | -0.339 | |
| Direct Effect | -0.359 | |
| Indirect Effect | 0.02 | |
| (1) through Anxiety | ||
| Spurious Effect | 0.05 | |
| (1) through symptom severity | 0.044 | |
| “(2) through symptom severity and depression” | 0.015 | |
| “(3) through Depression and symptom severity” | -0.01 | |
| “(4) through symptom severity depression and anxiety” | 0.001 | |
| “Symptom Severity and QOL” | Total Association | -0.662 |
| Total Effect | -0.411 | |
| Direct Effect | -0.4 | |
| Indirect Effect | -0.011 | |
| (1) through depression | -0.135 | |
| (2) through self-efficacy | 0.04 | |
| (3) through self-efficacy and depression | 0.09 | |
| (4) through self-efficacy and anxiety | -0.002 | |
| “(5) through self-efficacy, anxiety and depression” | -0.004 | |
| Spurious Effect | NA |