I am conducting this linear regression in SPSS Statistics and I am a little confused about the results. So, my dependent variable is EPI (Environmental Performance Index) and my independent variables are HMT (Heavy Metals), WMG (Waste Management), MSW (Controlled solid waste), REC (Recycling), WWT (Wastewater treatment), and UWD (Unsafe Drinking water). So, on the ANOVA table, I can see that heavy metals has a Beta coefficient of positive 0.090. If I understand it correctly, this means that as heavy metals increase, the environmental performance indicator increases as well but how could that be possible from an environmental point of view? Also, similar to this, as waste management increases, the environmental performance indicator increases as well.

Coefficientsa Unstandardized Standardized 95.0% Confidence Interval Coefficients Coefficients for B Model B Std. Error Beta Sig. Lower Bound Upper Bound 1 (Constan 23.922 1.722 13.895 <.001 t hmt .090 . .040 .175 wmg .413 msw rec wwt .160 uwd .200 a. dependent variable: epi>