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BiopsychosociaJ Effects Among Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Patients 46<br />
scale and the Mac-New Heart Disease Health Related Quality <strong>of</strong>life Questionnaire (Table<br />
12). The measure <strong>of</strong> correlation between the variables approached significance at the .05<br />
level. The analysis <strong>of</strong> the hypothesis supports a possible correlational relationship<br />
between measures <strong>of</strong> coping and quality <strong>of</strong> life with an increased sample size.<br />
Table 12.<br />
Correlation Matrix for Coping -Problem Emotion and Health Related Quality <strong>of</strong> Life<br />
BRIEF COPE (COPE-PF) MACNEW(HRQL)<br />
Brief Cope (Cope-PF) .207<br />
MacNew (HRQL) .207<br />
n=74<br />
*p< .05, two tails<br />
Factor Analysis<br />
On order to understand the dimensions underlying the correlations between The<br />
Social Support Behavior Scale, The Brief Cope, The McGill Pain Questionnaire, The<br />
Mac-New Heart Disease HRQL Questionnaire, and The Beck Depression Inventory-<br />
Revised, a principal components analysis was conducted. The results <strong>of</strong> the principal<br />
components varimax rotated factor analysis using a criterion <strong>of</strong> eigenvalues greater than<br />
or equal to one revealed two factors (Table 13).<br />
The first factor extracted factor comprised the Mac-New total score, the Brief<br />
Cope-problem focused and Brief Cope-emotion focused scales. This factor appears to<br />
measure a coping/quality <strong>of</strong> life dimension. This suggests that individuals who scored<br />
high on coping scores also showed high quality <strong>of</strong> life scores. This factor loading also
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