. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 May 9;47:68–77. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.025

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics and Partial Correlations among Outcome and Predictor Variables.

	Descriptive Statistics		Partial correlations
Variables	Mean	SD	Morning cortisol	TSST cortisol reactivity	TSST cortisol AUCg	TSST cortisol AUCi	Sex	Early maternal depression
1. BMI (percentile)	60.49	28.42	−.16^*	.21^**	.02	.17^*	−.00	.05
2. Morning cortisol	1.22	0.02		−.02	.11	−.03	.19^**	−.01
3. TSST cortisol reactivity	0.65	0.62			.62^***	.96^***	.01	−.04
4. TSST cortisol AUCg	155.00	39.94				.62^***	−.13^*	.02
5. TSST cortisol AUCi	33.55	40.88					.05	−.03
6. Sex	0.54	0.50						−.07
7. Early maternal depression	6.83	5.41

p ≤ .05;

^**

p ≤ .01;

^***

p ≤ .001

Note: Correlations use centered predictors and partial out the effect of early pubertal development, age 18 depression symptoms, age 18 oral contraceptive usage, and TSST location. Sex was coded as −0.5 for males and +0.5 for females.