Fig. 2.

The prediction of lifetime major depression (LTMD) in women from the experiences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and four potentially important confounder variables. The model is identical to that depicted in Fig. 1 with the addition of a history of parental loss before the age of 16 (P loss), parental socio-economic status (P SES), as indexed by the highest education of the breadwinner in the home of origin, parental warmth (P warm), as measured by the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI; Parker et al. 1979), and a lifetime history of parental major depression (P MD), as assessed by personal interview and DSM-III-R criteria (Fawcett, 1997) or the Family History Research Diagnostic Criteria (FH-RDC; Endicott et al. 1975). Path coefficients with an asterisk (*) are individually statistically significant.