Table 3.

Stepwise multiple linear regression^a for factors predicting the depressive symptoms CES-D score among female Egyptian public servants

Variables	Male public servants
	B	SE	95% CI	Standardized β
High job demands	0.09	0.04	0.02, 0.17	0.09
High job control	-0.17	0.04	-0.24, -0.09	-0.17
Family structure	0.09	0.03	0.04, 0.14	0.08
Education	0.04	0.02	0.01, 0.07	0.05
Working spouse	-0.06	0.03	-0.12, -0.01	-0.12
Medical history of depression	0.21	0.03	0.14, 0.27	0.15

^aThe stepwise linear regression started with a model including age, residence, education, occupation, working hours per day, job nature, additional work, job demands, job control, social support at work, household income, smoking habit, marital status, a working spouse, type of family, number of family members, number of children in the family, social support at family, medical history of chronic diseases, and past history of physician-diagnosed depression

The R² of the final model = 0.41