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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Apr;65(4):421–429. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.65.4.421

Table 6.

Parameter Estimates for the Best-Fit Model for Animal Fearsa

λ Path
Residual
Genetic Factors
Shared Environmental Factors
Unique Environmental Factor
Factor (Age, y) P S P S Total a2, % 1 2 3 4 Total c2, % 1 2 3 4 Total e2, % 1 2 3 4
1 (8–9) 0.90 NA 0 NA 34 0.58 62 0.79 4 0.21
2 (13–14) 0.92 0.55 0.27 0.54 44 0.28 0.60 42 0.37 0.53 15 0.32 0.22
3 (16–17) 0.84 0.51 0.26 0.54 45 0.14 0.64 0.15 38 0.47 0.27 0.30 17 0.35 −0.13 0.16
4 (19–20) NA 0.61 NA 0.54 56 0.01 0.53 0.45 0.27 19 0.40 0.16 0 0 25 0.40 −0.08 −0.23 0.18

Abbreviations: See Table 5.

a

Results for the “upper part” of the model only (Figure 1), which includes fear symptoms shared by parent and self-reporters. Parameter estimates constrained to equality across the sexes and the value of rg set to 0.34. Parameter estimates for the lower part of the model are available in eTable 2 (http://www.archgenpsychiatry.com). The λ path, depicted in Figure 1, connects the latent liability to fears to the report level of fears from parent report (P) and self-report (S).