TABLE 3.
Associations Between Maternal Depression Symptoms and Child Depression/Anxiety Symptoms Tested Separately by Child Gender
| Gender Effects | Relatedness Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genetically Related |
Genetically Unrelated |
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| Correlation Coefficient | n | Correlation Coefficient | n | |
| Boys T1 | ||||
| Mother-rated child symptoms | 0.28⁎⁎⁎ | 329 | 0.18 | 99 |
| Father-rated child symptoms | 0.21⁎⁎⁎ | 210 | 0.10 | 59 |
| Girls T1 | ||||
| Mother-rated child symptoms | 0.37⁎⁎⁎ | 309 | 0.40⁎⁎⁎ | 107 |
| Father-rated child symptoms | 0.24⁎⁎⁎ | 225 | 0.39⁎⁎⁎ | 107 |
| Boys T2 | 0.26⁎⁎⁎ | 185 | 0.25⁎⁎ | 43 |
| Girls T2 | 0.41⁎⁎⁎ | 165 | 0.51⁎⁎⁎ | 60 |
Note: T1 = data collection in 2006; T2 = data collection in 2009.
⁎⁎
p < .01,
⁎⁎⁎
p < .001.