The Relationship between Personality and Depression in Expectant Parents

Table 3

Percentage of variance, significance, B and β indexes, in Beck score explained by the different predictors (TCI temperament and character scales) in the Hierarchical Multiple Regression Equations (women and men samples).

	𝑅^2 Change	B	β	P
Women group
(1) Age	.00	−.03	−.03	n.s.
(2) NS	.01	−.01	−.04	n.s.
(3) HA	.12	.07	.32	.02
(4) RD	.01	−.07	−.28	n.s.
(5) P	.01	.02	.10	n.s.
(6) SD	.18	−.11	−.68	.04
(7) C	.05	.13	.71	n.s.
(8) ST	.00	.00	−.02	n.s.
Men group
(1) Age	.15	.12	.15	n.s.
(2) NS	.00	.04	.16	n.s.
(3) HA	.09	.07	.29	n.s.
(4) RD	.03	.05	.19	n.s.
(5) P	.01	.04	.26	n.s.
(6) SD	.31	−.16	−1.10	.00
(7) C	.02	.04	.25	n.s.
(8) ST	.01	−.03	−.13	n.s.