Table 3.
Summary of hierarchical multiple regression analysis for variables predicting psychological distress.
| N = 260 | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | β | R 2 | Adjusted R 2 | R 2 change | B | β | R 2 | Adjusted R 2 | R 2 change | B | β | R 2 | Adjusted R 2 | R 2 change | |
| Constant | 6.241*** | – | 0.128*** | 0.114*** | 0.128*** | 10.456*** | – | 0.185*** | 0.162*** | 0.057*** | 6.945*** | – | 0.293*** | 0.267*** | 0.108*** |
| Age | 0.386** | 0.179 | – | 0.312* | 0.145 | – | 0.057 | 0.027 | – | ||||||
| Gender (ref = male) | 1.204* | 0.122 | – | 1.355* | 0.137 | – | 0.955 | 0.097 | – | ||||||
| SEN (ref = having a SEN) | −3.477*** | −0.228 | – | −2.827** | −0.185 | – | −2.559** | −0.168 | – | ||||||
| Ethnicity (ref = White Irish) | 3.476*** | 0.192 | – | 2.389* | 0.132 | – | 2.029* | 0.112 | – | ||||||
| Peer Support | – | – | – | −0.710* | −0.134 | – | −0.628 | −0.118 | – | ||||||
| School support | – | – | – | –0.216 | −0.045 | – | 0.143 | 0.030 | – | ||||||
| Parent child closeness | – | – | – | −1.170** | −0.190 | – | −1.211*** | −0.196 | – | ||||||
| Disease anxiety | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.146 | 0.108 | – | ||||||
| Consequence anxiety | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.508*** | 0.306 | – | ||||||
Model = “Enter” method in SPSS Statistics; B = unstandardized regression coefficient; β, standardized coefficient; R2, R square. SEN: 0 = Yes, 1 = No; Gender: 0 = Male, 1 = Female; Ethnicity: 0 = White Irish, 1 = Everyone else. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.