RESULTS
Predicting caregiver self-efficacy
Bivariate correlations between variables in the
analyses that follow may be found in Table 1.
Caregiver’s self-efficacy was correlated significantly
with caregiver’s personal factors, such that
family caregivers had a high level of caregiving
self-efficacy when the caregivers were spousal
and when they had a higher number of health
problems. A multiple regression analysis entering
variables simultaneously identified predictors
of caregiver self-efficacy. Results indicated that
these variables accounted for 6.1% (adjusted R2)
of the variance [F(8,125) = 2.09, p 0.05], with
the only significant predictor being caregiver’s
health status (see Table 2).