Potentially traumatic events, coping strategies and associations with mental health and well-being measures among conflict-affected youth in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Cherewick, Megan; Doocy, Shannon; Tol, Wietse; Burnham, Gilbert; Glass, Nancy

doi:10.1186/s41256-016-0007-6

Table 7 Multivariable hierarchical regressions of externalizing problems on independent variables

From: Potentially traumatic events, coping strategies and associations with mental health and well-being measures among conflict-affected youth in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

		Boys^a				Girls^b
Model		b	SE	β	p	b	SE	β	p
M1	Age	−0.003	0.005	−0.033	0.608	0.002	0.005	0.031	0.647
	Total pTEs	−0.003	0.004	−0.055	0.336	0.003	0.005	0.043	0.533
	Attack Victim	0.015	0.041	0.026	0.717	0.068	0.043	0.121	0.113
	Home Violence	0.023	0.035	0.052	0.514	0.006	0.021	0.018	0.760
	Village Violence	−0.032	0.026	−0.088	0.226	−0.008	0.022	−0.022	0.728
	Constant	1.188	0.065		0.000	1.101	0.067		0.000
M2	Age	−0.004	0.005	−0.051	0.393	0.002	0.005	0.023	0.731
	Total pTEs	−0.002	0.004	−0.032	0.595	0.003	0.005	0.042	0.549
	Attack Victim	0.013	0.042	0.023	0.757	0.067	0.039	0.119	0.083
	Home Violence	0.023	0.032	0.053	0.482	0.012	0.020	0.035	0.547
	Village Violence	−0.023	0.027	−0.064	0.390	−0.008	0.022	−0.023	0.720
	Problem-focused	0.094	0.027	0.231	0.001**	0.113	0.046	0.219	0.016*
	Emotion-focused	0.040	0.044	0.059	0.368	0.016	0.041	0.028	0.701
	Avoidance	−0.014	0.022	−0.040	0.511	−0.046	0.024	−0.131	0.058
	Faith	−0.003	0.029	−0.007	0.915	−0.021	0.028	−0.045	0.457
	Constant	1.186	0.061		0.000	1.109	0.066		0.000
M3	Age	−0.003	0.005	−0.043	0.468	0.003	0.005	0.032	0.629
	Total pTEs	−0.003	0.004	−0.042	0.486	0.003	0.005	0.038	0.596
	Attack Victim	0.018	0.042	0.031	0.672	0.063	0.038	0.112	0.099
	Home Violence	0.022	0.032	0.051	0.485	0.009	0.020	0.027	0.633
	Village Violence	−0.023	0.026	−0.065	0.375	−0.003	0.021	−0.007	0.903
	Problem-focused	0.137	0.034	0.339	0.000**	0.190	0.056	0.369	0.001**
	Emotion-focused	0.063	0.045	0.093	0.168	0.047	0.042	0.082	0.262
	Avoidance	−0.011	0.022	−0.031	0.616	−0.045	0.023	−0.129	0.055
	Faith	0.007	0.029	0.016	0.795	−0.012	0.028	−0.025	0.679
	ProblemxEmotion	−0.298	0.149	−0.174	0.047*	−0.303	0.115	−0.241	0.009**
	Constant	1.172	0.061		0.000	1.093	0.063		0.000

Note: SE Robust standard errors
^a R ² = 0.0143 for step 1, p = 0.6141; R ² = 0.0678 for step 2, p = 0.0138; R ² = 0.0846 for step 3, p = 0.0471
^b R ² = 0.0188 for step 1, p = 0.5419; R ² = 0.0734 for step 2, p = 0.0967; R ² = 0.1043 for step 3, p = 0.0093
*p<0.05, **p<0.01 in boldface

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