Table 5.

Multivariate regressions with the pronoun category (we, I, and they) and covariates predicting PLWD dementia severity

	B	SE	t	p value
We-pronouns model
We-pronouns	–0.33	0.06	–5.49	<0.001***
Caregiver age	0.00	0.05	–0.08	0.94
Caregiver gender = female	0.05	0.07	0.69	0.49
Caregiver education	–0.12	0.06	–2.03	0.04<0.001*
Relationship type = spouse	0.08	0.06	1.33	0.19
Intervention group = usual care	0.05	0.06	0.89	0.37
I-pronouns model
We-pronouns	0.21	0.06	3.58	<0.001<0.001***
Caregiver age	0.02	0.06	0.29	0.77
Caregiver gender = female	0.05	0.07	0.77	0.44
Caregiver education	–0.12	0.06	–2.02	0.04<0.001*
Relationship type = spouse	0.02	0.06	0.28	0.78
Intervention group = usual care	0.03	0.06	0.51	0.61
They-pronouns model
We-pronouns	0.17	0.06	2.84	0.005<0.001**
Caregiver age	0.06	0.07	0.84	0.40
Caregiver gender = female	0.00	0.06	–0.09	0.93
Caregiver education	–0.12	0.06	–2.05	0.04<0.001*
Relationship type = spouse	0.04	0.06	0.59	0.56
Intervention group = usual care	0.03	0.06	0.49	0.62

PLWD, person living with dementia.

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.

^***p < 0.001.