Table 3: Summary of hierarchical regression analyses for personal (self-esteem, six affect regulation strategies) and social (family cohesion, social support) variables predicting life satisfaction and happiness.

Life Satisfaction
Standardized Betas (β)		 Happiness
Standardized Betas (β)
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Sociodemographic Variables
Gender .01 -.03 -.05 .01 -.02 -.03
Age -.14** -.12** -.09* -.12* -.10* -.06
Socioeconomic Status .27** .17** .18** .18** .08 .08
Personal Variables
Self-Esteem .15** .13** .12** .09*
Behavioral Strategies .23** .15** .24** .14**
Cognitive Strategies .06 .05 .11 .10
Situation-Focus .08 .06 .09 .07
Affect-Focus .18** .16** .12** .10*
Disengagement .06 .03 .04 .01
Avoidance -.06 -.02 -.06 -.02
Social Variables
Family Cohesion .24** .18**
Social Support .17** .25**
R2 Change .09** .19** .10** .04** .20** .10**
Adjusted R2 .08** .26** .36** .04** .22** .32**
Multiple R .30** .53** .61** .21** .49** .58**

Notes: **p<.01, *p<.05; Gender is coded into 1 = man and 2 = women; A pairwise treatment of missing data was used which can produce different significance level of the same value of standardized beta.