Table 5.
Lifetime and current psychiatric disorder and demographic predictors of gambling severity.
| Variables | Lifetime psychiatric disorders (N = 128) | Current psychiatric disorders (N = 90) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.