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Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2009 Dec;23(6):882. doi: 10.1037/a0017147

Table 5.

Association between Mother Cortisol and Adolescent Cortisol (Physiological Synchrony): Direct and Moderating Effects of Momentary Characteristics of Mother Presence, Mother Affect, and Adolescent Affect

Fixed effects: Main effects	Coefficient	SE	t	p
Mother cortisol^a	0.191	0.063	3.04	.004
Presence of mother^a	−0.068	0.025	−2.77	.009
Mother positive affect^a	−0.024	0.049	−0.48	> .05
Mother negative affect^a	−0.019	0.076	−0.25	> .05
Adolescent positive affect^a	−0.026	0.065	−0.40	> .05
Adolescent negative affect^a	0.055	0.074	0.75	> .05

Fixed effects: Interactions with mother cortisol	Coefficient	SE	t	p
Presence of mother^b	0.075	0.074	1.01	> .05
Mother positive affect^b	−0.026	0.050	−0.53	> .05
Adolescent positive affect^b	−0.077	0.058	−1.32	> .05
Mother negative affect^b	0.143	0.067	2.14	.033
Adolescent negative affect^b	0.169	0.076	2.24	.026

Note. Results are based on 45 mother-adolescent dyads. Models retain Level 1 predictors and control variables included in the synchrony model shown in Table 3. Predictors with the same superscripts were entered simultaneously.