Table 5.
Lifetime and current psychiatric disorder and demographic predictors of gambling severity.
Variables | Lifetime psychiatric disorders (N = 128) | Current psychiatric disorders (N = 90) | ||
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Beta | P | Beta | P | |
Presence of lifetime psychiatric disorder | 0.239** | 0.001 | 0.300*** | 0.000 |
Age (20 or below as reference) | ||||
21–30 | 0.094 | 0.741 | 0.138 | 0.622 |
31–40 | 0.271 | 0.412 | 0.304 | 0.350 |
41–50 | 0.282 | 0.445 | 0.344 | 0.342 |
50 or above | −0.174 | 0.052 | −0.188 | 0.033 |
Gender (male as reference) | ||||
Female | 0.129 | 0.102 | 0.100 | 0.196 |
Marital status (single as reference) | ||||
Married or cohabitated | −0.050 | 0.571 | −0.041 | 0.642 |
Divorced or separated or widowed | −0.014 | 0.874 | −0.034 | 0.693 |
Education (lower secondary school or below as reference) | ||||
Upper secondary school | −0.197* | 0.040 | −0.183 | 0.052 |
Sixth form or above | −0.106 | 0.288 | −0.090 | 0.361 |
Economic status (employed as reference) | ||||
Retired/homemaker/student | 0.036 | 0.722 | −0.032 | 0.708 |
Unemployed | 0.206 | 0.732 | 0.016 | 0.876 |
Income (5,000 or below as reference) | ||||
5,001–10,000 | 0.206 | 0.087 | 0.190 | 0.106 |
10,001–15,000 | 0.170 | 0.180 | 0.159 | 0.199 |
15, 001 or above | 0.239 | 0.085 | 0.192 | 0.156 |
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Adjusted R 2 = 0.073; F(15,185) = 2.048* | Adjusted R 2 = 0.104; F(15,185) = 2.543** |
Note. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. Beta is the standardized regression coefficient.