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Published in final edited form as: Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2012 May 21;126(5):10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01874.x. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01874.x

Table 3.

Effects of strain, ruminative style, and gender on caregiver depressive symptoms

	Independent variables	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5
Step one: demographics	Age	−0.040	0.026	0.076	0.075	0.075
	SES	0.032	0.003	0.002	0.000	0.000
	Clinical status	0.001	−0.034	−0.003	−0.002	−0.002
Step two: subjective strain	Subjective Strain		0.419^***	0.213^*	0.212^*	0.212^*
Step three: RSQ	Rumination			0.498^***	0.498^***	0.498^***
Step four: gender	Caregiver Gender^†				0.006	0.005
Step five: RSQ by gender	Rumination by gender^†					0.001
	R²	0.003	0.172^***	0.372^***	0.372	0.372
	Adjusted R²	−0.025	0.141	0.342	0.336	0.330
	ΔR²	0.003	0.169^***	0.200^***	0.000	0.000

RSQ, Ruminative Style Questionnaire.

P < 0.05

^**

P < 0.01

^***

P < 0.001.

^†

1, Male, 2, Female.