The protective role of religiosity against problem gambling: findings from a five-year prospective study

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 The influence of overall religiosity on the intercept and slope of problem gambling severity, by gender (n = 4120)

	Males (n = 1867)				Females (n = 2253)
	Intercept		Slope		Intercept		Slope
	Effect	p	Effect	p	Effect	p	Effect	p
Religiosity total score	−0.17	<0.001	−0.002	0.97	−0.13	<0.001	−0.004	0.93
Religious affiliation^a
Atheist/Agnostic (ref.)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Catholic	0.28	0.01	−0.15	0.45	0.49	<0.001	−0.15	0.51
Protestant	0.14	0.15	−0.22	0.21	0.41	<0.001	−0.09	0.67
Other	−0.05	0.71	−0.11	0.63	0.05	0.71	−0.09	0.71
Prefer not to say	0.23	0.10	−0.46	0.07	0.38	0.005	−0.25	0.33
Age	−0.01	0.004	0.01	0.01	0.001	0.51	0.01	0.10
Education	−0.15	<0.001	0.02	0.63	−0.14	<0.001	0.06	0.22
Household income	0.07	0.06	−0.05	0.43	0.01	0.75	0.11	0.11
Marital status
Never married (ref.)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Married or common law	−0.33	<0.001	0.45	0.005	−0.19	0.03	0.43	0.01
Divorced or separated or widowed	−0.05	0.66	0.15	0.46	−0.15	0.14	0.48	0.01

^a See Additional file 2: Table S2 for contrasts between all levels of religious affiliation

ISSN: 1471-244X