TABLE 2.

Zero-Order Correlations of Key Study Variables

	1	2	3	4	5
1. Caregiver depressive symptoms (CES-D)	–
2. Caregiver anxiety symptoms (BAI)	0.68d	–
3. Caregiver negative affect (PANAS)	0.82d	0.76d	–
4. Caregiver positive affect (PANAS)	−0.41c	−0.17	−0.24a	–
5. Patient empathic accuracy	−0.31b	−0.29b	−0.26a	0.11	–
6. Patient dementia severity (CDR-Box)	0.59d	0.31b	0.40c	−0.38c	−0.41c

Notes. BAI: Beck Anxiety Inventory; CDR-Box: Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Box Score; CES-D: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; PANAS: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule.

^ap <0.10.

^bp <0.05.

^cp <0.01.

^dp <0.001.