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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Schizophr Res. 2010 Oct 28;126(1-3):164–173. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.09.011

Table 4.

Results of three-way analyses examining the impact of schizophrenia risk, a history of depression, and participant’s sex on cognitive performance.

General Cognitive Ability “g” dferror Schizophrenia Risk Depression Hx Sex Schizophrenia Risk x Depression Hx Schizophrenia Risk x Sex Depression Hx x Sex Schizophrenia Risk x Depression Hx x Sex

F p F p F p F p F p F p F p


995 18.91 <.001 1.42 .233 2.47 .116 2.93 .087 4.48 .034 0.29 .591 8.55 .004

Schizophrenia Risk Depression Hx Sex Schizophrenia Risk x Depression Hx Schizophrenia Risk x Sex Depression Hx x Sex Schizophrenia Risk x Depression Hx x Sex

dferror F p F p F p F p F p F p F p


Processing Speed 1031 26.54 <.001 1.48 .224 1.54 .214 3.29 .070 3.94 .047 0.04 .846 3.27 .071
N-back Performance 857 16.18 <.001 0.16 .688 6.45 .011 0.24 .623 2.26 .133 0.50 .480 5.50 .019
Span Working Memory 893 0.03 .853 2.07 .150 6.79 .009 0.35 .557 0.22 .636 0.43 .513 0.64 .424
Verbal Memory 1031 3.34 .068 0.15 .695 3.65 .056 0.75 .386 1.94 .164 0.67 .412 1.41 .236
Visual Memory 756 1.59 .208 1.23 .268 0.26 .609 0.16 .685 0.40 .525 0.29 .590 0.17 .682
Card Sorting Ability 1002 10.63 .001 0.71 .399 0.69 .405 2.88 .090 5.43 .020 1.27 .260 9.76 .002

Hx, History, ANCOVA, analysis of covariance. All analyses completed with an ANCOVA controlling for age, education, and race differences among siblings and controls. Included in general cognitive ability “g” are the six cognitive domains listed above; “g” is a mean value of the performance in the six individual domains. All statistic values are F from the ANCOVA, adjusting for age, education, and race. Bold indicates significant findings (p < .05); italic indicates trends.