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Chapter IV: Results
model now with three predictor variables that contained grade, gender, and Social Perspective
Coordination, accounted for 5.5% of the variance in adolescents' dimensions of depressive
symptomatology, F(3, 316) = 6.12, p = .000. The unique contribution of Social Perspective
Coordination was 2.8% and was statistically significant (AR 2 = .028, p = .002). In the third step,
the model now with seven predictor variables, accounted for 46.2% of the variance in
adolescents' dimensions of depressive symptomatology, F(7, 312) = 38.225,p = .000. The
unique contribution of the four emotion variables, Poor Emotion Awareness, Expressive
Reluctance of Emotion, Anger Regulation Inhibition, and Sadness Regulation Coping, was
statistically significant, AR 2 = .407, p = .000.
Hierarchical Regression Analysis for Boys Only
To assess for any distinctions in gender regarding the influence of the independent
variables on predicting adolescents' dimensions of depressive symptomatology, hierarchical
regression analysis was done separately for boys and for girls. The rationale for separating the
analysis by gender rather than interactions was for ease of interpreting the findings. The betas, t
values, sig. t, R 2, and AR 2values are presented in Table 30 for boys only.
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