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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2010 Dec;27(12):1087–1094. doi: 10.1002/da.20762

Table 2.

Longitudinal associations of childhood environment characteristics with adult mood and anxiety disorders.
Childhood Environmental
Characteristic		 Major
Depression
(age 20–50)		 Anxiety Disorder
(age 20–50)		 Any Mood or
Anxiety Disorder
(age 20–70)
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Overall Childhood Assessment1 0.9a (0.8, 1.0) 0.8* (0.6, 0.9) 0.9* (0.8, 1.0)
Childhood Environmental Strengths2 0.9a (0.8, 1.0) 0.8* (0.7, 1.0) 0.9 (0.8, 1.0)
Childhood Adaptive Functioning3 1.0 (0.8, 1.2) 0.7* (0.5, 0.9) 0.7* (0.5, 0.9)
Low Parental SES 1.1 (0.7, 1.6) 1.2 (0.7, 2.1) 1.1 (0.7, 1.6)
Mother’s Education 1.2 (0.8, 1.8) 2.1* (1.2, 3.9) 1.3 (0.9, 1.9)
Father’s Education 1.0 (0.7, 1.4) 1.1 (0.7, 1.7) 1.2 (0.8, 1.8)
Parent marital Status 0.7 (0.3, 1.8) 0.7 (0.2, 2.4) 0.7 (0.3, 1.7)
*

Significant at the .05 level, 2-sided test.

a

Significant at the .10 level, 2-sided test.

1

Overall childhood assessment includes indicators of childhood environmental strengths (see below) and indicators of childhood health, temperament, and school functioning.

2

Childhood environmental strengths includes indicators of family cohesion, relationship quality of the respondent with mother, father, and siblings, and a global impression of the childhood home environment.

3

Childhood adaptive functioning includes indicators of childhood health, temperament, and school functioning.