Skip to main content

Table 2 Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis of Beck Depression Inventory Scale (BDI) in relation to demographic characteristics and Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs scale (RFI-SRB) or Sense of Coherence scale (SOC)

From: Effect of religiosity/spirituality and sense of coherence on depression within a rural population in Greece: the Spili III project

 

1st model

2nd model

3rd model

Predictors

Standardized betas

t

p-value

Standardized betas

t

p-value

Standardized betas

t

p-value

Gender

0.153

2.51

0.013

0.178

4.17

<0.001

0.079

1.59

0.115

Age

−0.102

−1.53

0.128

0.184

3.63

<0.001

0.083

1.46

0.146

Family status

0.028

0.43

0.670

−0.007

−0.15

0.881

−0.016

−0.30

0.763

Religion

0.068

1.20

0.234

0.014

0.35

0.729

0.015

0.32

0.751

Multimorbidity

0.646

10.40

<0.001

0.175

3.22

0.002

0.307

5.13

<0.001

RFI-SRB scale

   

−0.699

−14.23

<0.001

-

-

-

SOC scale

   

-

-

-

−0.556

−10.20

<0.001

R2

0.41

0.72

0.62

R2 adjusted

0.40

0.71

0.61

  1. Categorical predictors were defined as gender (1:male, 2:female), family status (1:married, 2: not married, divorced, widowed), religion (1: Christian Orthodox, 2: Christian Evangelist) and multimorbidity (1:none, 2:one, 3:two or more). BDI and RFI-SRB scale were used as log10 transformed values