Table 4.

Multivariate Regression Model for Complicated Grief (N = 85).

Variables	B	SE (B)	β	t-stat	p-value	R²
CG Demographics
Age	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.96	0.34
Male	−0.53	2.39	−0.02	−0.22	0.83
African American	1.52	3.13	0.05	0.48	0.63
Pre-death
CG depression score (CES-D)	0.67	0.17	0.41	3.84	0.00
CG preparedness for CR death	−3.95	1.95	−0.21	−2.02	0.04
Study Characteristics
Intervention group	1.51	2.25	0.07	0.69	0.51
Time in days since CR’s death	−0.02	0.02	−0.10	−0.96	0.34
Step 1, F (7, 72) = 3.97,p <.01						0.28
CG Demographics
Age	0.08	0.10	0.09	0.80	0.424
Male	−0.65	2.36	−0.03	−0.27	0.786
African American	1.14	3.10	0.04	0.37	0.714
Pre-death
CG depression score (CES-D)	0.57	0.18	0.35	3.13	0.002
CG preparedness for CR death	−3.52	1.95	−0.19	−1.81	0.075
Study Characteristics
Intervention group	1.36	2.22	0.06	0.61	0.543
Time in days since CR’s death	−0.02	0.02	−0.08	−0.84	0.406
Post-death
CG restorative activities	−0.30	0.18	−0.18	−1.69	0.090
Step 2, F (8, 71) = 3.93,p <.01						0.31

CG = caregiver, CR = care recipient, CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale.