TABLE 5.
Correlations between caregivers’ personal growth and the 3 dimensions of FFQ and 6 dimensions of burden of care, as measured by FPQ, and the duration of user illness and relative’s years of education.
| Personal growth | Problem-solving | Communication | Personal goals | Objective burden of care | Subjective burden of care | (Lack of) professional support | (Lack of) family Support | (Absence of) positive comments | Negative comments | User length of illness | Relative’s years of education | ||
| Problem-solving | Pearson correlation | −0.383** | – | ||||||||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.000 | ||||||||||||
| Communication | Pearson correlation | −0.270** | 0.644** | – | |||||||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.001 | 0.000 | |||||||||||
| Personal goals | Pearson correlation | −0.260** | 0.548** | 0.459** | – | ||||||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.002 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||||
| Objective burden of care | Pearson correlation | 0.145 | −0.230** | −0.024 | −0.390** | – | |||||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.092 | 0.007 | 0.78 | 0.000 | |||||||||
| Subjective burden of care | Pearson correlation | 0.037 | −0.192* | 0.089 | −0.332** | 0.648** | – | ||||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.67 | 0.025 | 0.302 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||||||
| (Lack of) professional support | Pearson correlation | 0.179* | −0.399** | −0.344** | −0.196* | 0.123 | 0.148 | – | |||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.037 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.022 | 0.155 | 0.085 | |||||||
| (Lack of) family support | Pearson correlation | 0.286** | −0.421** | −0.252** | −0.208* | 0.253** | 0.262** | 0.501** | – | ||||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.001 | 0.000 | 0.003 | 0.015 | 0.003 | 0.002 | 0.000 | ||||||
| (Absence of) positive comments | Pearson correlation | 0.237** | −0.445** | −0.268** | −0.134 | 0.282** | 0.234** | 0.221** | 0.337** | – | |||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.006 | 0.000 | 0.002 | 0.121 | 0.001 | 0.006 | 0.01 | 0.000 | |||||
| Negative comments | Pearson correlation | −0.022 | 0.022 | 0.046 | 0.024 | −0.033 | 0.116 | 0.074 | 0.121 | −0.106 | — | ||
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.8 | 0.803 | 0.591 | 0.779 | 0.699 | 0.179 | 0.391 | 0.162 | 0.222 | ||||
| User length of illness | Pearson correlation | −0.142 | 0.112 | 0.159 | −0.082 | 0.047 | 0.172* | −0.093 | −0.026 | 0.002 | −0.046 | – | |
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.1 | 0.194 | 0.064 | 0.344 | 0.591 | 0.045 | 0.281 | 0.76 | 0.981 | 0.595 | |||
| Relative’s years of education | Pearson correlation | 0.11 | −0.008 | 0.119 | 0.226** | 0.011 | −0.088 | 0.018 | 0.03 | −0.038 | −0.034 | −0.157 | – |
| Sign. (two-tailed) | 0.204 | 0.928 | 0.166 | 0.008 | 0.901 | 0.307 | 0.832 | 0.733 | 0.663 | 0.695 | 0.068 |
Bold values indicate a statistically significant correlation with a p-value < 0.05. *p = 0.05; **p = 0.01.