Table 4.

Relationships between mental symptoms and coping mechanisms, life events as well as social support by hierarchical regression analysis.

Variable	Mental symptoms (β)
	1st step	2nd step	3rd step	4th step	5th step
Control variable
Gender	0.156**	0.110**	0.103**	0.107**	0.111**
Age	0.019	0.013	0.009	0.006	0.012
Ethnic	0.103*	0.095*	0.096*	0.090*	0.064
Education	−0.070	−0.033	−0.016	−0.020	−0.023
Negative coping		0.640***	0.682***	0.689***	0.554***
Positive coping			−0.081	−0.058	−0.032
Social support
Objective				−0.080	−0.063
Subjective				−0.036	−0.042
Support accessibility				0.030	0.008
Life event
Family event					0.141***
Work event					0.206***
Social event					0.070
R2	0.044	0.449	0.453	0.463	0.539
ΔR2		0.405***	0.004	0.010	0.076***
F	4.646**	66.152***	55.997***	38.545***	38.937***

^*P<0.05;

^**P<0.01;

^***P<0.001.