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. 2012 Feb;22(1):37–47. doi: 10.1089/cap.2011.0085

Table 2.

Association of Pretreatment Affect and Social Context with Posttreatment Severity

  Severity Depressive symptoms (CDRS-R) Depressive symptoms (MFQ) Anxiety symptoms
Affect
NA 0.31* 0.38* 0.49** 0.51**
PA −0.32* −0.33* −0.35* −0.44**
PA:NA −0.38** −0.43** −0.51** −0.57**
NA Lability 0.08 0.19 0.02 −0.09
PA Lability −0.05 −0.18 0.04 −0.06
Companion
Sibling −0.33** −0.35* −0.04 0.04
Mother 0.12 0.05 −0.02 0.08
Father −0.28 −0.43** −0.42** −0.48**
Peer 0.19 0.34* 0.33* 0.44**
None 0.04 0.11 −0.12 −0.31

Note: All values are Pearson r statistics. Clinicians rated severity using the Clinical Global Impressions-Severity Scale (Guy 1976) and depressive symptoms using the Child Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R; Poznanski and Mokros 1996). Participants self-reported depressive symptoms using the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ; Angold et al. 2002) and anxiety symptoms using the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (Birmaher et al. 1999). Affect values are means of affective items over 12 time points, and companion values reflect proportion of time points at which participant reported reported the presence of the companion. NA=negative affect; PA=positive affect; PA:NA ratio of positive affect to negative affect.

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p<0.05; **p<0.01.