Table 4.

Pearson product moment correlations between children’s depressive symptoms and demographic, familial, and personal and risk factors

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Depressive symptoms	1.00
2. Demographic risk variable	.22**	1.00
3. Negative life events	.07	.21**	1.00
4. Negative parenting behaviors	.18**	.17**	.35**	1.00
5. Depressive attributional style	.23**	−.05	.14*	.07	1.00
6. Self-perceived competence	−.37**	−.04	−.10	−.19**	−.10	1.00
7. Children’s age	−.33**	.07	.04	.03	.06	−.02	1.00

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01

Note: Demographic risk variable = composite formed from dichotomous risk variables, including parental income under $20,000, single parenthood, less than a 12th grade parental education, 4 or more children living in the home, child is female, and child is an ethnic minority