The co-moderating effect of social support and religiosity in the association between psychological distress and coping strategies in a sample of lebanese adults

Table 5 Moderation analysis taking psychological distress as an independent variable, social support/mature religiosity as moderators and each coping score as the dependent variable

Moderator	Beta	t	p	95% CI
Model 1: Problem-focused engagement as the dependent variable.
Mature religiosity	− 0.003	-1.527	0.128	− 0.01; 0.001
Social support	0.002	1.461	0.145	− 0.001; 0.01
Model 2: Problem-focused disengagement as the dependent variable.
Mature religiosity	0.005	2.827	0.005	0.002; 0.009*
Social support	− 0.002	-1.679	0.094	− 0.005; 0.001
Model 3: Emotion-focused engagement as the dependent variable.
Mature religiosity	− 0.002	-1.264	0.207	− 0.006; 0.001
Social support	− 0.006	− 0.254	0.799	− 0.05; 0.04
Model 4: Emotion-focused disengagement as the dependent variable.
Mature religiosity	0.001	0.177	0.860	− 0.004; 0.004
Social support	0.001	− 0.217	0.828	− 0.003; 0.003

*indicates significant moderation; results adjusted over age, gender, marital status, education level, region of living and household crowding index.

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