Table 3.

Hierarchical regression summary of the effect of psychosocial vulnerabilities at 3 months, rumination as an independent predictor and rumination as an amplifier on 3 month depression severity, post-ACS.

	ΔR2	B	SE(B)	p-Value
Step 1	0.48**
Age		−0.05	0.03	0.07
Sex (1 = male; 2 = female)		−0.15	0.65	0.81
Partner (1 = yes; 2 = no)		1.16	0.67	0.8
Years of schooling		−0.28	0.10	0.01
Work status (1 = employed; 0 = unemployed)		0.29	0.73	0.69
Ethnicity (1 = Hispanic; 0 = non-Hispanic)		1.82	1.10	0.10
Baseline depression severity		0.57	0.04	<0.001
Charlson comorbidity score		0.09	0.22	0.68
LVEF		0.09	0.35	0.79
Step 2	0.11**
Dysfunctional attitudes		0.06	0.01	<0.001
Pleasant events scale		6.58	1.16	<0.001
Role transitions		0.82	0.32	0.01
Poor dyadic adjustment		1.58	0.39	<0.001
Step 3	0.05**
Rumination brooding		0.75	0.10	<0.001
Step 4	0.04**
DAS × brooding		0.01	0.003	0.003
PES × brooding		0.57	0.30	0.06
RLT × brooding		−0.19	0.10	0.04
DYAD × brooding		0.32	0.08	<0.001

DAS, dysfunctional attitudes; PES, pleasant events scale; DYAD, poor dyadic adjustment; RLT, number of role transitions. **p < 0.001.