Table 4.

Multiple regression analysis for variables affecting parent-child relationship.

	Step 1			Step 2			Step 3
	B†	SE B‡	β§	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Variables
Age	−0.04	0.02	−0.11	−0.03	0.02	−0.08	0.00	0.02	0.01
Sex	−1.50	0.54	−0.19*	−0.88	0.54	−0.11	−0.09	0.40	−0.01
Marital status				−0.72	0.24	−0.20*	−0.14	0.18	−0.04
Employment status				1.00	0.36	0.19*	0.57	0.26	0.10*
Born in Hong Kong				−1.45	0.43	−0.21*	0.14	0.34	0.02
Parental stress							−0.14	0.01	−0.67*
Harsh parenting							−0.03	0.01	−0.12*
R2	0.04			0.15			0.55
Adjusted R2	0.03			0.13			0.54
R2 change = 0.40

^† Unstandardised coefficients;

^‡ Standard error of unstandardized coefficients;

^§Standardized coefficient.

^*Significant at p < 0.05.