Table 2.
Bivariate associations among study variables
| Cancer- related distress |
Information satisfaction |
Age | Race | Partnered | Education | Tested status | No. affected relatives |
Age of youngest relative |
Familial dysfunction | Perceived peer sup port |
Perceived cancer risk |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer-related distress | – | −0.19+ | 0.08 | −0.12 | −0.06 | 0.00 | −0.15 | 0.09 | −0.08 | 0.30** | −0.19+ | 0.22* |
| Information satisfaction | – | 0.19+ | −0.06 | 0.18+ | 0.20* | −0.25* | 0.06 | 0.02 | −0.26** | 0.00 | −0.13 | |
| Age | – | −0.05 | 0.44*** | 0.59*** | −0.34*** | 0.06 | 0.02 | −0.11 | −0.11 | 0.13 | ||
| Race (White vs. non-White) | – | 0.13 | −0.03 | −0.09 | −0.09 | −0.09 | −0.07 | 0.12 | 0.03 | |||
| Partnered (Y vs. N) | – | 0.29*** | −0.18+ | 0.10 | 0.01 | −0.22* | −0.11 | 0.10 | ||||
| Education | – | −0.35*** | 0.05 | 0.08 | −0.23* | 0.07 | 0.06 | |||||
| Tested status (Y vs. N) | – | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.01 | −0.02 | 0.01 | ||||||
| No. affected relatives | – | −0.28** | −0.13 | −0.04 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Age of youngest relative | – | 0.12 | 0.15 | −0.06 | ||||||||
| Familial dysfunction | – | −0.32*** | 0.07 | |||||||||
| Perceived peer support | – | −0.09 | ||||||||||
| Perceived cancer risk | – |
+
< .10
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001