Table 2.

Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis of Beck Depression Inventory Scale (BDI) in relation to demographic characteristics and Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs scale (RFI-SRB) or Sense of Coherence scale (SOC)

	1st model			2nd model			3rd model
Predictors	Standardized betas	t	p-value	Standardized betas	t	p-value	Standardized betas	t	p-value
Gender	0.153	2.51	0.013	0.178	4.17	<0.001	0.079	1.59	0.115
Age	−0.102	−1.53	0.128	0.184	3.63	<0.001	0.083	1.46	0.146
Family status	0.028	0.43	0.670	−0.007	−0.15	0.881	−0.016	−0.30	0.763
Religion	0.068	1.20	0.234	0.014	0.35	0.729	0.015	0.32	0.751
Multimorbidity	0.646	10.40	<0.001	0.175	3.22	0.002	0.307	5.13	<0.001
RFI-SRB scale				−0.699	−14.23	<0.001	-	-	-
SOC scale				-	-	-	−0.556	−10.20	<0.001
R2	0.41			0.72			0.62
R2 adjusted	0.40			0.71			0.61

Categorical predictors were defined as gender (1:male, 2:female), family status (1:married, 2: not married, divorced, widowed), religion (1: Christian Orthodox, 2: Christian Evangelist) and multimorbidity (1:none, 2:one, 3:two or more). BDI and RFI-SRB scale were used as log₁₀ transformed values