Table 4.

Hierarchical Regression summary of the effect of baseline psychosocial vulnerabilities, 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		−0.04	0.03	0.26
Sex (1 = male; 2 = female)		−0.43	0.66	0.52
Partner (1 = yes; 2 = no)		1.44	0.69	0.04
Years of schooling		−0.27	0.10	0.02
Work status (1 = employed; 2 = unemployed)		0.07	0.76	0.93
Ethnicity (1 = Hispanic; 2 = non-Hispanic)		1.74	1.12	0.12
Baseline depression severity		0.58	0.04	<0.001
Charlson comorbidity score		0.28	0.23	0.23
LVEF		0.26	0.34	0.45
Step 2	0.02*
Dysfunctional attitudes		0.03	0.02	0.07
Pleasant events scale		1.62	1.36	0.24
Role transitions		0.58	0.32	0.07
Poor dyadic adjustment		0.59	0.40	0.15
Step 3	0.01*
Rumination brooding		0.37	0.12	0.003
Step 4	0.01*
DAS × brooding		0.004	0.004	0.30
PES × brooding		0.24	0.39	0.54
RLT × brooding		−0.05	0.10	0.58
DYAD × brooding		0.27	0.10	0.01

DAS, dysfunctional attitudes; PES, pleasant events scale; DYAD, poor dyadic adjustment; RLT, number of role transitions. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001.