Table 3.

Simple and multiple regression results for factors associated with severity of depression among T2DM patients

	r	Significance	Beta	Significance
Sex	0.044	0.181	0.027	0.575
Age	−0.030	0.265	0.128	0.012
BMI	0.035	0.234	0.026	0.568
HBA1c	−0.001	0.490	−0.011	0.798
Smoking	−0.083	0.043	−0.112	0.011
Alcohol	0.068	0.078	0.087	0.055
Exercise frequency	−0.045	0.176	−0.001	0.982
Single	0.116	0.008	0.103	0.041
Living alone	0.053	0.134	−0.022	0.658
Personaliy traits
Extraversion	−0.206	<0.001	−0.089	0.056
Agreeableness	−0.312	<0.001	−0.234	<0.001
Conscientiousness	−0.218	<0.001	−0.033	0.482
Neuroticism	0.428	<0.001	0.347	<0.001
Openness	−0.133	0.003	−0.032	0.484
Multiple correlation coefficients			0.525	<0.001

Note: Bolds show statistically significant.

Abbreviations: T2DM, Type 2 diabetes mellitus; BMI, body mass index; HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c.