Table 2.
The importance of adolescents’ self-esteem and sources of interpersonal stressors in predicting depression: multiple regression analysis (MR) and relative weight analysis (RWA) results.
| Predictors | Depressed mood |
Sense of inadequacy |
Insecurity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MR |
RWA |
MR |
RWA |
MR |
RWA |
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| β | t | p | Raw importance | Rescaled importance (%) | β | t | p | Raw importance | Rescaled importance (%) | β | t | p | Raw importance | Rescaled importance (%) | |
| Gender | 0.22 | 3.07 | 0.002 | 0.02 | 3.5 | 0.21 | 2.88 | 0.004 | 0.02 | 2.8 | 0.34 | 4.74 | 0.000 | 0.07 | 11.4 |
| Age | -0.05 | -0.62 | 0.534 | 0.00 | 0.6 | 0.02 | 0.29 | 0.768 | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.03 | 0.49 | 0.624 | 0.00 | 0.2 |
| Self-esteem | |||||||||||||||
| Interpersonal relationships | -0.28 | -3.83 | 0.000 | 0.18 | 28.0 | -0.29 | -4.18 | 0.000 | 0.20 | 30.5 | -0.22 | -2.87 | 0.006 | 0.14 | 24.6 |
| Control of life events | 0.10 | 1.33 | 0.186 | 0.10 | 16.7 | -0.19 | -2.50 | 0.013 | 0.18 | 27.1 | -0.12 | -1.46 | 0.144 | 0.12 | 21.2 |
| Management of neg. emotion | -0.62 | -7.45 | 0.000 | 0.27 | 43.0 | -0.40 | -5.11 | 0.000 | 0.23 | 35.3 | -0.36 | -4.13 | 0.000 | 0.18 | 31.7 |
| Sources of interp. stressors | |||||||||||||||
| Parents | 0.18 | 2.53 | 0.012 | 0.02 | 2.4 | 0.11 | 1.52 | 0.131 | 0.01 | 0.9 | 0.16 | 2.25 | 0.026 | 0.01 | 2.1 |
| Teachers | 0.04 | 0.60 | 0.551 | 0.00 | 0.4 | 0.04 | 0.52 | 0.604 | 0.00 | 0.3 | 0.04 | 0.59 | 0.555 | 0.00 | 0.4 |
| Classmates | 0.07 | 1.00 | 0.321 | 0.01 | 0.8 | 0.17 | 2.26 | 0.025 | 0.01 | 2.0 | 0.23 | 3.23 | 0.001 | 0.03 | 5.9 |
| Friends | 0.16 | 2.17 | 0.031 | 0.03 | 4.6 | 0.05 | 0.69 | 0.488 | 0.01 | 1.0 | 0.08 | 1.14 | 0.255 | 0.02 | 2.5 |
| R2 | 0.63 | 100 | 0.66 | 100 | 0.57 | 100 | |||||||||
| F(9,181) | 31.01** | 36.53** | 25.50** | ||||||||||||
Note. Rescaled importance was computed by dividing the relative weights by the total R2 and multiplying by 100. ∗∗p < 0.001.