Table 10.

Linear regression to examine the predictors of alcohol use in the total sample (n=347)

Model		Coefficientsa			t	Significant
		Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients Beta
		B	SE
7	Constant	4.53	3.34		1.36	0.18
	HESI score	0.05	0.02	0.20	3.19	0.00
	RISCI score	−0.13	0.07	−0.14	−1.99	0.05
	SDS_score	0.01	0.04	0.01	0.13	0.90
	SAS_score	−0.06	0.04	−0.11	−1.42	0.16
	Age	−0.09	0.15	−0.03	−0.57	0.57
	Gender	−0.64	0.65	−0.05	−0.98	0.33
	Depr_Fam	−0.09	1.05	−0.01	−0.09	0.93
	Suicide_Fam	−0.64	1.18	−0.03	−0.54	0.59
	Subsuse_Father	0.39	0.28	0.08	1.40	0.16
8	(Constant)	1.45	1.03		1.40	0.16
	HESI score	0.05	0.02	0.17	2.88	<0.01
	RISCI score	−0.18	0.06	−0.19	−3.10	<0.01

^aDependent variable: MAST scores. Predictor variables – age, gender, family history of depression, family history of suicide, history of substance abuse in father, educational stress (HESI score), psychological stress (RISCI score), depression scores, and anxiety scores, MAST – Michigan alcohol screening test; RISCI – Rhode island stress and coping inventory; HESI – Higher education stress inventory; SDS – Zung’s self-rating scale for depression; SAS – Zung’s self-rating scale for anxiety; SE – Standard error\