Table 4.

Predicting emotional tone (im)balance: findings of the hierarchical regression analysis

Block	Predictor	Emotional tone (im)balance
		Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
		β	β	β
1	Cognitive groupa	− .24*	− .07	− .03
	Acute hospital settingb	− .26*	− .13	− .25*
2	Older target person’s characteristics: functional statusc		.38**	.36**
3	Perceiver’s self-system: psychogeriatric knowledged			.28*
ΔR2		.14**	.09**	.06*
Adjusted R2		.12	.20	.25
F		6.63**	8.10***	8.23***

n = 86; Method = Enter

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001

^aThe assignment to the cognitive group was based on the 10/11 cutoff of the 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (Hessler et al. 2017)

^bAcute hospital setting: general acute hospital versus geriatric acute hospital

^cA higher sum score of the Barthel Index indicates a better functional performance (Mahoney and Barthel 1965)

^dSelf-rated psychogeriatric knowledge (Tropea et al. 2017); possible range: 1 (very low)–5 (very high)