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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2009 Jan;45(1):64–76. doi: 10.1037/a0014026

Table 6.

Univariate Associations Between 5-HTTLPR Genotype and Unresolved Attachment

AAI measure	5-HTTLPR genotype						Test statistic
	s/s		s/l		l/l
	N	M (SD) or %	N	M (SD) or %	N	M(SD) or %
Unresolved classification							χ^2:(2) = 9.07^*
Not Unresolved	13	21	17	28	31	51
Unresolved	8	32	13	52	4	16
AAI scale scores
Overall Unresolved	21	3.81 (2.05)	30	4.09 (2.43)	35	3.01 (1.85)	K-W: χ²(2) = 4.08
Unresolved loss	21	3.81 (2.05)	30	4.09 (2.43)	33	2.64 (1.75)	K-W: χ^2;(2) = 7.33^*
Unresolved trauma	3	3.33 (2.52)	4	3.13 (2.39)	9	3.22 (2.12)	k-w: χ²(2) = 0.02
Coherence of transcript	21	4.92 (1.65)	30	4.25(1.78)	35	5.10 (1.55)	K-W: χ²(2) = 4.00

Note. AAI = Adult Attachment Interview; K-W = Kruskal-Wallis.

^*

p < .05.