Table 4.

Explorative analysis of the relationship between QoL and SWB and possibly influencing factors.

Independent variable	Dependent variable	Standardized coefficients betaa	t	Sig.	R	R 2	Adj. R2
treatment_chemo	Meaning/Peace	0.077	1.037	0.302	0.726	0.527	0.468
gender_female		−0.001	−0.012	0.991
age_0-60		<0.001	−0.003	0.998
education_higher		−0.047	−0.649	0.518
religious_yes		0.04	0.513	0.609
anxiety		−0.331	−4.308	<0.001
depression		−0.405	−5.186	<0.001
religious salience		−0.069	−0.713	0.477
christian		−0.036	−0.334	0.739
world		0.113	1.545	0.125
transcendental		−0.09	−0.87	0.386
not transcen.		0.014	0.181	0.856
faith		0.207	2.677	0.009
treatment	Overall QoL	−0.043	−0.547	0.586	0.697	0.485	0.408
gender		0.121	1.567	0.12
age		−0.093	−1.151	0.252
education		−0.051	−0.655	0.514
religious		−0.147	−1.731	0.087
anxiety		−0.003	−0.033	0.974
depression		−0.247	−2.742	0.007
religious salience		0.123	1.191	0.237
christian		−0.165	−1.45	0.15
world		0.02	0.257	0.798
transcendental		0.058	0.525	0.601
not transcen.		−0.034	−0.398	0.691
faith		0.012	0.14	0.889
meaning/peace		0.536	5.108	<0.001
treatment	Satisfaction with Life	−0.058	−0.844	0.401	0.784	0.614	0.558
Gender		0.029	0.449	0.654
Age		−0.097	−1.412	0.161
Education		0.092	1.379	0.171
Religious		−0.076	−1.061	0.291
Anxiety		−0.019	−0.243	0.808
Depression		−0.06	−0.74	0.461
religious salience		−0.136	−1.547	0.125
Christian		−0.011	−0.117	0.907
World		−0.041	−0.601	0.549
Transcendental		0.083	0.874	0.384
not transcen.		0.047	0.641	0.523
Faith		0.025	0.335	0.738
meaning/peace		0.753	8.167	<0.001

QoL: quality of life; SWB: spiritual well-being.

A multiple regression analysis was used with an enter approach.

^aThe higher the absolute value of the beta, the more influential the independent variable on the dependent variable.