Statistical Methods for Psychology

696 Appendices

Variable Name Columns Description

HostT 35–36 Hostility Tscore

PhobT 38–39 Phobic anxiety Tscore

ParT 41–42 Paranoid ideation Tscore

PsyT 44–45 Psychoticism Tscore

GSIT 47–48 Global symptom index Tscore

PVTotal 50–52 Perceived vulnerability total score

PVLoss 54–56 Perceived vulnerability to loss

SuppTotl 58–60 Social support score

Stress.dat

The data in this file are a subset of data being collected by Compas and his colleagues on

stress and coping in cancer patients. The file contains the family number, the gender of the

respondent (1 5 Male; 2 5 Female), the role of the respondent (1 5 Patient; 2 5 Spouse),

and two stress measures (one obtained shortly after diagnosis and one 3 months later). The

variables are in the following order: FamNum, Gender, Role, Time1, Time2. The first six

cases follow:

101212.

101122.

104114.

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