Table 3.

Hierarchical regression analysis in the community- and clinical group separately, with RCADS total score as the dependent, gender/age and subscales from the ACS-C and MCQ-C₃₀ as predictors.

	Community group (n = 182)					Clinical group (n = 169)
Criterion variable	Step	R2	R2 change	Predictor	β	Step	R2	R2 change	Predictor	β
RCADS	1	0.01	0.01			1	0.04	0.04*
				Gender	0.12				Gender	0.19*
				Age	–0.01				Age	–0.02
	2	0.28	0.27**			2	0.28	0.24**
				Gender	0.06				Gender	0.16*
				Age	0.01				Age	0.04
				ACS-C-focus	–0.43**				ACS-C-focus	–0.46**
				ACS-C-shifting	–0.15*				ACS-C-shifting	–0.10
				ACS-C-flexible	0.13*				ACS-C-flexible	0.06
	3	0.63	0.34**			3	0.50	0.22**
				Gender	0.04				Gender	0.08
				Age	–0.06				Age	–0.03
				ACS-C-focus	–0.18**				ACS-C-focus	–0.18*
				ACS-C-shifting	–0.09				ACS-C-shifting	–0.12
				ACS-C-flexible	0.12*				ACS-C-flexible	0.08
				MCQ-C30-pos	0.12*				MCQ-C30-pos	0.02
				MCQ-C30-neg	0.39**				MCQ-C30-neg	0.35**
				MCQ-C30-cc	0.17**				MCQ-C30-cc	0.03
				MCQ-C30-nc	–0.01				MCQ-C30-nc	0.21**
				MCQ-C30-csc	0.18*				MCQ-C30-csc	0.06
	4	0.64	0.01*
				Gender	0.04
				Age	–0.06
				ACS-C-focus	–0.22**
				ACS-C-shifting	–0.13*
				ACS-C-flexible	0.07
				MCQ-C30-pos	0.12*
				MCQ-C30-neg	0.37**
				MCQ-C30-cc	0.17**
				MCQ-C30-nc	0.01
				MCQ-C30-csc	0.21**
				MCQxACS	–0.14*

RCADS, revised child anxiety and depression scale – child version; ACS-C, attention control scale for children; focus, attention focusing; shifting, attention shifting; flexible, flexible control of thought; MCQ-C₃₀, metacognitions questionnaire for children; pos, positive metacognitive beliefs; neg, negative metacognitive beliefs; cc, cognitive confidence; nc, need for control; csc, cognitive self-consciousness; β, standardized beta coefficients. ^∗p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01.