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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2009 Oct;12(5):469–488. doi: 10.1375/twin.12.5.469

Table 3.

Polychoric Correlations Between Major Depression (MD), Sub-Clinical Depression (SCD), Kessler Perceived Social Support (KPSS), Stressful Life Events (SLE), and Age for Males (Below Diagonal) and Females (Above Diagonal)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Females
1 MD Lifetime r 1.00 1.00 1.00 .98 .99 .99 .99 -.11 .27 .08 -.04
N 6343 6329 6294 6215 5118 4961 4827 5065 5082 5018 6736
2 MD Before12RP1 r 1.00 1.00 1.00 .98 .99 .91 .90 -.13 .26 .12 .07
N 4426 5968 5967 5872 5039 4695 4589 4787 4802 4741 6311
3 MD During/after12RP r 1.00 1.00 1.00 .98 .97 .99 .99 -.07 .29 .05 -.15
N 4449 4277 6302 5849 4748 4965 4830 4720 4732 4674 6287
4 MD After12RP r 1.00 1.00 1.00 .97 .97 .99 .99 -.09 .28 .04 -.15
N 4432 4275 4435 5812 4733 4941 4830 4695 4707 4650 6250
5 SCD Lifetime r .98 .97 .97 .97 1.00 1.00 1.00 -.11 .32 .10 -.09
N 4303 4140 4158 4140 5139 4969 4833 4663 4682 4620 6194
6 SCD Before12RP r .98 .98 .96 .96 1.00 1.00 1.00 -.12 .32 .12 .01
N 3643 3615 3497 3493 3654 3865 3857 3881 3898 3840 5101
7 SCD During/after12RP r .98 .91 .99 .98 1.00 1.00 1.00 -.07 .28 .06 -.20
N 3531 3394 3531 3516 3533 2871 4833 3743 3754 3701 4927
8 SCD After12RP r .98 .88 .99 .99 1.00 1.00 1.00 -.08 .26 .04 -.21
N 3441 3328 3441 3440 3442 2866 3442 3643 3655 3602 4792
9 KPSS r -.10 -.08 -.11 -.11 -.09 -.09 -.08 -.10 -.18 -.04 -.02
N 2841 2748 2731 2722 2688 2286 2223 2171 6011 5938 6041
10 Personal SLE r .22 .19 .23 .23 .27 .26 .24 .22 -.15 .28 -.22
N 2873 2779 2760 2751 2722 2318 2246 2194 3402 5970 6076
11 Network SLE r .16 .18 .14 .14 .16 .18 .10 .10 .00 .29 .03
N 2834 2744 2723 2714 2684 2288 2219 2167 3343 3386 5995
12 Age r .03 .14 -.06 -.07 -.03 .04 -.10 -.10 .01 -.23 .01
N 4557 4373 4391 4373 4259 3603 3482 3392 3411 3456 3390
Males

NOTE:

1

12RP= the 12-month reporting period of SLE. See Figure 1 for details.