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Table 3 Univariate variance analyses

From: Engagement of patients in religious and spiritual practices: Confirmatory results with the SpREUK-P 1.1 questionnaire as a tool of quality of life research

 

variables

Levene's test *

F-value

p-value

(1) conventional religious practice

SpR attitude

age

0.000

45.165

1.350

0.000

n.s.

 

religious affiliation

educational level

0.007

23.192

1.396

0.000

n.s.

(2) existentialistic practice

SpR attitude

age

0.000

15.064

0.921

0.000

n.s.

 

religious affiliation

educational level

0.028

3.557

2.768

0.030

0.040

 

gender

marital status

gender * marital status

n.s.

4.390

2.276

2.325

0.037

0.029

0.056

(3) unconventional spiritual practice

SpR attitude

age

0.000

29.344

0.982

0.000

n.s.

 

religious affiliation

educational level

0.003

0.417

4.429

n.s.

0.005

 

disease

duration of disease

0.001

2.555

1.228

0.042

n.s.

(4) humanistic practice

disease

duration of disease disease

* duration of disease

0.053

2.047

1.711

3.188

0.091

n.s.

0.002

(5) nature-oriented practice

SpR attitude

age

0.000

4.058

0.302

0.008

n.s.

 

disease duration of disease

n.s.

2.484

1.088

0.046

n.s.

  1. In this table, only significant results were given.
  2. *Levene's test for equality of variances was significant and thus the level of significance for the variance analyses should be p < 0.01