TABLE 3.

Hierarchical Linear Regression With Anxiety Symptoms as the Dependent, and Sex/Age/Education Level, Personality Traits, and Metacognitive Beliefs and Strategies as Predictors (n = 4963)

Anxiety–GAD-7		F Change	R2 Change	r	t
1		129.801	0.073**
	Sex			−0.070	−5.142**
	Age			−0.200	−14.583**
	Education			−0.112	−8.137**
2		343.951	0.240**
	Sex			−0.016	−1.351
	Age			−0.099	−8.398**
	Education			−0.073	−6.223**
	N			0.412	34.925**
	E			−0.013	−1.066
	O			0.053	4.522**
	A			−0.089	−7.511**
	C			0.008	0.673
3		163.130	0.022**
	Sex			−0.026	−2.232*
	Age			−0.075	−6.423**
	Education			−0.077	−6.642**
	N			0.392	33.723**
	E			−0.006	−0.481
	O			0.046	3.967**
	A			−0.071	−6.138**
	C			0.008	0.658
	Positive MB			0.148	12.772**
4		558.911	0.068**
	Sex			−0.018	−1.618
	Age			−0.050	−4.512**
	Education			−0.051	−4.655**
	N			0.308	27.946**
	E			−0.001	−0.065
	O			0.047	4.298**
	A			−0.049	−4.460**
	C			0.020	1.844
	Positive MB			0.018	1.619
	Negative MB			0.260	23.641**
5		3945.435	0.266**
	Sex			0.007	0.881
	Age			−0.007	−0.865
	Education			−0.027	−3.265**
	N			0.109	13.227**
	E			0.018	2.141*
	O			0.010	1.183
	A			−0.028	−3.430**
	C			0.033	4.014**
	Positive MB			−0.041	−4.952**
	Negative MB			0.062	7.509**
	CAS			0.515	62.813**

r, semipartial (part) correlation; N, neuroticism; E, extraversion; O, openness; A, agreeableness; C, conscientiousness; MB, metacognitive beliefs; CAS, metacognitive strategies.

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.