The Dyadic Effects of Self-Efficacy on Quality of Life in Advanced Cancer Patient and Family Caregiver Dyads: The Mediating Role of Benefit Finding, Anxiety, and Depression.

Study findings not only support the dyadic interdependence of self-efficacy, benefit finding, anxiety, depression, and QOL in CP-FC dyads but confirm the hypothesis that dyads' self-efficacy may impact their MCS/PCS via an indirect approach to improve benefit finding and relieve anxiety and/or depression in CP-FC dyads.