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Published in final edited form as: J Anxiety Disord. 2024 Jan 9;102:102826. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102826

Table 5.

T1 Childhood Maternal Affection Predicting T3 GAD Severity via T2 Positive Reappraisal, controlling for T1 GAD

Estimate 95% CI Cohen’s d
Regressions
 MatAf[T1] → GAD[T3] −0.028 [−0.056, 0.000] −0.181
 MatAf[T1] → PR[T2] 0.035*** [0.018, 0.051] 0.379
 PR[T2] → GAD[T3] −0.204*** [−0.275, −0.133] −0.526
 GAD[T1] → GAD[T3] 0.312*** [0.263, 0.360] 1.180
Covariances
 GAD[T1] ~~ MatAf[T1] −0.089*** [−0.116, −0.063] −0.619
Factor Loadings
 T1 MatAf 1 1.000*** [0.134, 0.168] -
 T1 MatAf 2 0.841*** [0.142, 0.183] 5.478
 T1 MatAf 3 0.916*** [0.131, 0.166] 4.978
 T1 MatAf 4 0.770*** [0.211, 0.259] 4.257
 T1 MatAf 5 0.797*** [0.673, 0.780] 4.378
 T3 GAD 1 1.000*** [1.000, 1.000] -
 T3 GAD 2 0.921*** [0.873, 0.970] 3.504
 T3 GAD 3 0.987*** [0.934, 1.039] 3.413
 T3 GAD 4 1.093*** [1.035, 1.150] 3.481
 T3 GAD 5 1.008*** [0.950, 1.067] 3.152
 T3 GAD 6 0.975*** [0.920, 1.030] 3.241
 T3 GAD 7 0.855*** [0.804, 0.906] 3.057
 T3 GAD 8 1.141*** [1.080, 1.201] 3.463
 T3 GAD 9 1.028*** [0.969, 1.087] 3.190
 T3 GAD 10 0.861*** [0.798, 0.923] 2.533
 T2 PR 1 1.000*** [1.000, 1.000] -
 T2 PR 2 1.055*** [0.966, 1.144] 2.170
 T2 PR 3 2.030*** [1.877, 2.183] 2.431
 T2 PR 4 2.143*** [1.985, 2.300] 2.483
Residual Variances
 T1 MatAf 1 0.458*** [0.426, 0.490] 2.642
 T1 MatAf 2 0.245*** [0.226, 0.264] 2.332
 T1 MatAf 3 0.379*** [0.353, 0.404] 2.745
 T1 MatAf 4 0.220*** [0.203, 0.237] 2.350
 T1 MatAf 5 0.203*** [0.186, 0.220] 2.202
 T3 GAD 1 0.113*** [0.098, 0.129] 1.326
 T3 GAD 2 0.151*** [0.130, 0.172] 1.324
 T3 GAD 3 0.133*** [0.116, 0.151] 1.389
 T3 GAD 4 0.173*** [0.150, 0.197] 1.338
 T3 GAD 5 0.164*** [0.143, 0.185] 1.420
 T3 GAD 6 0.121*** [0.105, 0.137] 1.361
 T3 GAD 7 0.123*** [0.108, 0.138] 1.474
 T3 GAD 8 0.133*** [0.112, 0.154] 1.149
 T3 GAD 9 0.121*** [0.104, 0.139] 1.286
 T3 GAD 10 0.185*** [0.164, 0.206] 1.610
 T2 PR 1 0.389*** [0.368, 0.410] 3.357
 T2 PR 2 0.429*** [0.404, 0.454] 3.150
 T2 PR 3 0.146*** [0.128, 0.164] 1.493
 T2 PR 4 0.151*** [0.130, 0.173] 1.278
Residual Variances
 Variance of (MatAf)[T1] 0.726*** [0.673, 0.780] 2.471
 Variance of (GAD)[T3] 0.341*** [0.305, 0.377] 1.721
 Variance of (PR)[T2] 0.120*** [0.102, 0.138] 1.253
 Variance of (GAD)[T1] 0.468*** [0.424, 0.512] 1.960
Defined Parameters
 Indirect Effect −0.007*** [−0.011, −0.003] −0.313
 Total Effect −0.035* [−0.063, −0.007] −0.225
*

p < .05;

***

p < .001.

T1 = time 1; T2 = time 2 (9 years after T1); T3 = time 3 (9 years after T2, 18 years after T1); MatAf = childhood maternal affection; GAD = generalized anxiety disorder; PR = positive reappraisal; CI = confidence interval; CFI = confirmatory fit index; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation; SRMR = standardized root mean squared residual. Model fit indices: χ2(df = 429) = 3711.636, p < .001, CFI = 0.928, RMSEA = 0.067, 95% CI [0.065, 0.069], SRMR = 0.031.