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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2010 Nov 8;41(7):1385–1395. doi: 10.1017/S0033291710002059

Table 3.

Parameter estimates of survival models predicting offspring conduct disorder (CD)

Parameter Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
Model 5
b S.E. b S.E. b S.E. b S.E. b S.E.
Twin depression
 Phenotypic 0.82* 0.28 0.53* 0.20
 Between twin family 0.82* 0.23 0.77* 0.22 0.40** 0.22
 Within twin family 0.81** 0.48 0.34 0.41 0.23 0.39
 Difference between within-DZ and within-MZ estimates 1.98** 1.09 1.64* 0.64
Spouse depression −0.06 0.28 −0.21 0.21 −0.06 0.27 −0.02 0.24 −0.19 0.22
Twin zygosity 0.29 0.22 0.19 0.17 0.29 0.21 0.20 0.19 0.13 0.18
Offspring sex 0.39 0.28 0.53* 0.21 0.39 0.28 0.43** 0.25 0.55* 0.21
Offspring age 0.38* 0.18 0.42* 0.16 0.38* 0.17 0.39* 0.17 0.43* 0.16
Offspring age squared −0.01* 0.003 −0.008* 0.003 −0.01* 0.003 −0.008* 0.003 −0.008* 0.003
Parental divorce 0.18 0.21 0.18 0.21
Twin covariate
 Education −0.06 0.06 −0.05 0.06
 Age at first child’s birth 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.02
 Cigarette use 0.10 0.18 0.06 0.18
 Alcohol abuse −0.39 0.37 −0.33 0.35
 Alcohol dependence 1.16* 0.43 1.07* 0.38
 Illicit drug use 0.33 0.34 0.37 0.23
 Conduct disorder 0.19* 0.08 −0.06 0.11
Spouse covariate
 Education −0.03 0.06 −0.04 0.06
 Age at first child’s birth −0.01 0.02 −0.01 0.02
 Cigarette use 0.28 0.25 0.27 0.25
 Alcohol abuse 0.19 0.19 0.16 0.19
 Alcohol dependence 0.33 0.24 0.38 0.24
 Illicit drug use 0.44 0.24 0.37 0.23
 Conduct disorder −0.09 0.16 −0.06 0.11

DZ, Dizygotic; MZ, monozygotic; S.E., standard error. Analyses were weighted to estimate population-based parameters.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.10.