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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2013 Feb;25(1):261–274. doi: 10.1017/S0954579412001010

Table 2. The Prospective Effects of Parental Responsiveness on Child's Inhibition and Anxious Symptoms at age 27 months.

Genotype × AM responsiveness
Genotype × AF responsiveness
Model 1a
Model 1b
Model 2a
Model 2b
Observed
behavioral
inhibition
AF-report of
socially anxious
symptoms
Observed
behavioral
inhibition
AM-report of
socially anxious
symptoms




Parameters b SE b SE b SE b SE




Intercept 1.96 ** 0.20 1.16 ** 0.04 1.86 ** 0.20 1.22** 0.04
Covariates
AP household income 0.02 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.03 −0.01 0.01
Openness in adoption 0.02 0.05 −0.01 0.01 −0.01 0.05 0.01 0.01
Prenatal complications 0.07 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.07 0.05 0.02* 0.01
TC observed behavioral inhibitionat baseline 0.26 ** 0.06 -- -- 0.25 ** 0.06 -- --
TC socially anxious symptomsat baseline -- -- 0.69 ** 0.06 -- -- 0.67** 0.08
BM depressive symptoms 0.01 0.01 −0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01
Genotype
BM social phobia 0.22 0.14 −0.02 0.02 0.24 + 0.14 0.01 0.02
Environment
AM anxiety −0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01 -- -- -- --
AF anxiety -- -- -- -- −0.04 * 0.02 0.01 0.01
AM responsiveness 0.03 0.05 −0.01 0.01
AF responsiveness -- -- -- -- 0.01 0.04 0.01 0.01
Genotype × Environment
BM social phobia × AM responsiveness −0.23* 0.12 −0.05** 0.02 -- -- -- --
BM social phobia × AF responsiveness -- -- −0.15 0.11 0.01 0.02

R2 0.12 0.41 0.13 0.33

Note. AP= adoptive parents. AM = adoptive mother. AF= adoptive father. TC= target child. BM = birth mother. Baseline = age 18 months.

+

p<.10.

*

p<.05.

**

p<.01.