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.