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Table 5 Maternal distress and adolescent social skills as predictors of depressive symptoms in adolescent girls (n = 203)

From: Nuancing the role of social skills– a longitudinal study of early maternal psychological distress and adolescent depressive symptoms

Predictors

Model 1

 

Model 2

 

Model 3

 

Model 4

 

ß

t

 

ß

t

 

ß

t

 

ß

t

 

Early maternal distress (age 1.5)

.21

3.10

**

.23

3.41

***

.19

2.60

**

.16

1.96

 

Adolescent social skills (age 12.5)

   

−.29

−4.37

***

−.28

−4.09

***

−.27

−3.87

***

Maternal distress x social skills

      

.08

1.01

 

.08

1.02

 

Current maternal distress(age 14.5)

         

.06

.81

 

Socioeconomic indicators

         

−.02

−.31

 

R

 

.045

  

.129

  

.133

  

.137

 

R 2 adj

 

.041

  

.120

  

.120

  

.115

 

F change

 

9.58

**

 

19.07

***

 

1.02

  

.40

 
  1. * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001