Positive thinking, resourcefulness skills, and future anxiety among the caregivers of children with intellectual disability: an intervention study

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 7 Step wise multiple linear regression for predicting factors that affect future anxiety

Model	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	t	Sig.	95.0% Confidence interval for B
Model	B	Std. error	Beta	t	Sig.	Lower bound	Upper bound
(Constant)	− 33.283	6.273		− 5.306	.000	− 45.807	− 20.759
Positive thinking mean difference	− 2.612	.256	− .722	− 10.210	.001**	− 3.122	− 2.101
Diagnosis (mental retardation)	5.911	1.293	.331	4.571	.001**	3.329	8.493
Children number (> 3)	3.321	1.417	.170	2.344	.022*	.492	6.149

Variables entered and excluded: child age, child gender, birth order, suffering from other diseases, relation to the child, their age, gender, education, residence, marital status, occupation, monthly income, family history of psychiatric disease, total resourcefulness, personal, and social resourcefulness
^*Significant (p < 0.05)
^**Statistically highly significant (p < 0.001)
R-square = 0.673, ANOVA: F = 45.357, p < 0.001