Table 3.

Main and Interaction Effects of Maternal Sensitivity, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Child Gender on Child-Reported Externalizing and Internalizing Problems

	Externalizing Problems			Internalizing Problems
	F	β	SE	F	β	SE
Model 1
Child’s race	5.22	.27	1.53	4.17*	.37	3.60
Mother’s race	6.90	.26	1.71	.09	.06	0.13
Child’s gender				1.09	−.11	1.88
Mother’s age				2.57	−.17	0.13
Model 2
Sensitivity	4.28*	−.22	0.14	0.93	−.11	0.18
Model 3
BDI-II	0.01	.01	0.07	0.26	.06	0.10
Sensitivity	3.95*	−.22	0.15	0.57	−.63	0.19
Model 4
BDI-II × Sensitivity	1.16	.09	0.01	2.07	.15	0.02
Child gender × BDI-II	0.59	.08	0.16	0.35	.06	0.19
Child gender × Sensitivity	0.41	.01	0.30	0.17	.05	0.37
Model 5
Child Gender × Sensitivity × BDI-II	3.79	.22	0.03	7.67**	0.34	0.03

Note: N = 84; BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory-II measuring maternal depressive symptoms.

^*p ≤ .05.

^**p ≤.01.