. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 11.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Psychol. 2005 Aug 24;31(6):608–618. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsj066

Table 5.

Regressions for mothers

	Mother’s Mental Health (T2)		Mother-Child Relationship			Family Functioning
	Psychological Distress	Psychological Wellbeing	Parent Distress	Parent-Child Dysfunctional Relationship	Difficult Child	Cohesion	Adaptability
Independent Variables	β	β	β	β	β	β	β
Stage 1
Baseline Mental Health^a	.43^**	.36^**	.17	.21	.19	−.27^*	−.22
How sick right now (T1)?	.10	.009	.30^*	.16	.11	.02	.11
ISS total score	.05	−.13	−.19	−.21	−.04	−.07	−.16
T2 total social support	−.23^*	.27^*	−.30^*	−.02	−.16	.28^*	.19
Number of children	.08	−.19	.10	.24	−.04	.07	.26^*
Number of parents (1 vs. 2)	.11	−.08	.07	−.02	.07	.31^*	.008
Stage 2 – Parental Concerns	-	-	-	-	-	-
Child’s Experience							-
Child’s Future							-
Parenting							-
Financial							.27^**
Stage 3 – Parental Stressors	-		-	-	-	-
Child’s Appearance		−.26^*					-
Child’s Behavior & Emotions		-					-
Procedures done to Child		-					-
Parental Role		-					-
Sights & Sounds of the Unit		.32^**					-
Staff Communication		-					-
Staff Behavior		-					.33^*

F	4.55^**	4.12^**	3.25^**	1.70	.86	4.41^**	2.48^*
Total Adjusted R²	.25	.34	.18	.07	.00	.25	.16

p < .05

^**

p < .01

The measure of baseline mental health was T1 psychological distress for all dependent variables, except when the dependent variable was T2 psychological wellbeing. In that regression, T1 psychological wellbeing was used to indicate baseline mental health.