Table 5. Hierarchical regression models with PTSD, MDE, and PGD as predictors of general health distress, somatic complaints, and severity of suicide risk among bereaved participants (N = 179).
Outcome: severity of suicide risk | |||||||
Step | B | SEb | β | T | ΔR2 | ΔF | |
1 | number of traumatic events | .001 | .01 | .005 | .07 | .04 | 1.41 |
home displacement during war | .12 | .70 | .13 | 1.75 | |||
gender | .13 | .07 | .13 | 1.75 | |||
age | −.01 | .01 | −.08 | −1.00 | |||
years of schooling | .005 | .01 | .03 | .73 | |||
2 | PTSD | .04 | .07 | .05 | .60* | .17 | 13.79*** |
MDE | .40 | .08 | .36 | 4.95*** | |||
3 | PGD | .23 | .07 | .23 | 3.12* | .22 | 9.70** |
Note: PTSD = Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; MDE = Major Depressive Episode; PGD = Prolonged Grief Disorder.
*p<.05.
**p<.01;
***p<.001.
All p-values are two-tailed.