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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Sep 1;71(9):989–996. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.359

Table 2.

Bivariate tetrachoric correlations (standard errors) for prospective homotypic and heterotypic continuities from wave 1 diagnoses to wave 2 diagnoses in NESARC, adjusted for sex and age in wave 1.

Wave 2 Diagnoses
Distress Fears Externalizing
Wave 1
Diagnoses		 MDD2 DYS2 GAD2 SPP2 SOC2 AGP2 APD2 TOB2 ALC2 SUB2
Distress
MDD1 0.49 (0.02) 0.48 (0.03) 0.41 (0.02) 0.24 (0.02) 0.42 (0.02) 0.36 (0.02) 0.28 (0.03) 0.23 (0.02) 0.20 (0.03) 0.29 (0.04)
DYS1 0.43 (0.02) 0.53 (0.03) 0.44 (0.03) 0.27 (0.03) 0.42 (0.03) 0.35 (0.03) 0.32 (0.04) 0.28 (0.02) 0.15 (0.04) 0.28 (0.05)
GAD1 0.43 (0.02) 0.50 (0.04) 0.47 (0.03) 0.26 (0.03) 0.43 (0.02) 0.43 (0.03) 0.26 (0.04) 0.27 (0.03) 0.15 (0.04) 0.31 (0.06)
Fears
SPP1 0.24 (0.02) 0.22 (0.04) 0.24 (0.02) 0.41 (0.02) 0.33 (0.03) 0.28 (0.03) 0.19 (0.04) 0.19 (0.02) 0.13 (0.03) 0.12 (0.08)
SOC1 0.35 (0.02) 0.29 (0.04) 0.35 (0.03) 0.30 (0.02) 0.56 (0.02) 0.37 (0.03) 0.16 (0.04) 0.16 (0.03) 0.12 (0.04) 0.27 (0.06)
AGP1 0.38 (0.02) 0.31 (0.04) 0.35 (0.03) 0.34 (0.03) 0.43 (0.03) 0.55 (0.02) 0.30 (0.03) 0.30 (0.02) 0.22 (0.04) 0.29 (0.05)
Externalizing
APD1 0.23 (0.02) 0.19 (0.05) 0.22 (0.03) 0.18 (0.03) 0.19 (0.04) 0.28 (0.03) 0.42 (0.02) 0.33 (0.02) 0.25 (0.03) 0.39 (0.05)
TOB1 0.22 (0.02) 0.25 (0.03) 0.20 (0.02) 0.19 (0.02) 0.22 (0.03) 0.29 (0.02) 0.35 (0.02) 0.79 (0.01) 0.32 (0.02) 0.34 (0.04)
ALC1 0.22 (0.02) 0.14 (0.06) 0.18 (0.04) 0.07 (0.03) 0.18 (0.04) 0.24 (0.04) 0.32 (0.03) 0.31 (0.02) 0.60 0.02 0.32 (0.04)
SUB1 0.25 (0.04) 0.20 (0.08) 0.29 (0.07) 0.15 (0.05) 0.26 (0.06) 0.28 (0.06) 0.45 (0.04) 0.42 (0.04) 0.42 (0.05) 0.57 (0.05)

All correlations P < .05, except for wave 1 specific phobia 1 and wave 2 other substance dependence.

Note: Digit at the end abbreviations indicates wave of assessment; MDD = major depression; DYS = dysthymia; GAD = generalized anxiety disorder; SPP = specific phobia; SOC = social phobia; AGP = agoraphobia and or panic disorder; APD = antisocial personality disorder; TOB = tobacco dependence; ALC = alcohol dependence; SUB = other substance dependence; tetrachoric for homotypic associations are in bold ; prospective associations within the same second-order class of mental disorders (distress, fears, or externalizing) in gray shading.