. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 8.

Published in final edited form as: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008 Oct;37(4):794–807. doi: 10.1080/15374410802359635

Table 3.

Tests of the External Validity of the Three Dimensions of the Child and Adolescent Dispositions Scale (CADS) by Assessing Associations with Four dimensions of Psychopathology in Simultaneous Regression Analyses in Study 1.

	Conduct Disorder			Oppositional- Defiant Disorder			Major Depression			Anxiety Disorders
Caretaker Ratings of Psychopathology
Caretaker CADS Ratings	β	χ²	R²	β	χ²	R²	β	χ²	R²	β	χ²	R²
Prosociality	−0.86	138.74^***	.34	−0.40	117.99^***	.39	−0.11	5.53^*	.33	0.07	2.91	.25
Negative Emotionality	1.30	190.59^***		0.77	602.66^***		0.84	516.16^***		0.70	433.42^***
Daring	0.44	41.27^***		0.14	26.47^***		0.00	0.00		−.13	18.71^***
Youth Ratings of Psychopathology
Caretaker CADS Ratings
Prosociality	−0.56	32.92^***	.26				−0.02	0.09	.12	0.05	0.74	.11
Negative Emotionality	0.74	54.64^***					0.45	105.95^***		0.39	80.46^***
Daring	0.22	6.14^*					−0.09	5.56^*		−0.18	19.38^***

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .0001

Note: Only tests of main effects are tabled; interactions among the dispositions in their associations with CD are reported in the text. All models simultaneously controlled for the two other dispositional dimensions, age, sex, total family income, and race-ethnicity. R² = model pseudo-R².