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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 May;47(5):574–582. doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181676595

TABLE 5.

Effects of Maternal Psychiatric History on Family Interaction and Parenting

No Disorders (n = 35) Non-mood Disorder(s) (n = 17) MDD (n = 60) Statistic F2,109
Maternal control 3.7 ± 0.5a 3.5 ± 0.5a 3.4 ± 0.7b 2.72
Maternal positivity 3.3 ± 0.5a 3.3 ± 0.3a 3.2 ± 0.5a 1.17
Maternal negativity 2.0 ± 0.8a 1.9 ± 0.7a 2.2 ± 0.9a 0.79
Authoritative parenting 3.0 ± 0.9a 2.9 ± 0.7a 2.7 ± 1.0a 0.80
Authoritarian parenting 1.6 ± 0.9a 1.8 ± 0.8a 1.8 ± 0.9a 0.51
Permissive parenting 1.5 ± 0.6a 1.8 ± 0.9a 1.5 ± 0.6a 1.32
Disengaged parenting 1.1 ± 0.3a 1.1 ± 0.2ab 1.4 ± 0.6b 3.98*

Note: Means with different superscripts are significantly different. MDD = major depressive disorder.

*

p < .05;

p < .10.