Changes of anxiety in Chinese military personnels over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis

Table 2 Multiple regressions of predictors of trait anxiety, weighted for sample size

Predictors	Trait anxiety with controls			Trait anxiety without controls
	B(95% CI)	β	t	B(95% CI)	β	t
Year	0.24 (0.04 ~ 0.44)	0.28	2.46*	0.26 (0.03 ~ 0.49)	0.31	2.30*
Military categories^a
Navy	-1.85 (-4.92 ~ 1.20)	-0.15	-1.22
Air Forces	-3.23 (-5.67 ~ -0.80)	-0.39	-2.68*
SAF	-7.87 (-11.18 ~ -4.55)	-0.64	-4.78***
Armed Police	-7.08 (-10.65 ~ -3.51)	-0.47	-4.00***
Military Students	-8.04 (-11.23 ~ -4.87)	-0.65	-5.10***
Unknown	-4.30 (-6.93 ~ -1.68)	-0.55	-3.30**
Publication type	0.15 (-1.72 ~ 2.01)	0.02	0.16

Note:^aDummy variable was created with Army as the reference group; SAF = Second Artillery Force; B denotes the unstandardized regression coefficients; β denotes the standardized regression coefficients; n = 53; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

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