Table 2. Measures, Reliability Indices, and Measurement Timepoints.
Construct or Variable | Instrument | α* k IRR |
Timepoint‡ | |||
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Screening for Depressive | Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale | |||||
Symptom Severity | (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) | α = .90 | ||||
Outcomes | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | ||
Depressive Symptom Severity | Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Hamilton, 1960) | α = .75 | X | X | X | X |
Major Depressive Episode | Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 2001) |
IRR>.85 | X | — | — | X |
Maternal Positive Involvement, Negative Control, Developmental |
Maternal-Child Observation (MCO; Videotaped; Holditch-Davis et al., 2007) |
k = .66-.95 | X | X | — | X |
Stimulation | HOME Inventory (Observer-rated; Caldwell & Bradley, 1980) | IRR > .90 | X | X | — | X |
Perceived Stress | Everyday Stressors Index (ESI; Hall & Farel, 1988) | α = .83 | X | X | X | X |
Satisfaction with Social Support | Interpersonal Inventory (IPRI; Tilden, Nelson, & May, 1990) | α = .90 | X | X | X | X |
Mediators | ||||||
Self-Efficacy | General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE: Schwarzer & Born, 1997) | α = .89 | X | X | X | X |
Social Support Seeking | Social Support Seeking Inventory (SSSI; Greenglass, Fiksenbaum, & Burke, 1996) | |||||
Moderators | ||||||
Maternal Characteristics | Family Information Interview (Beeber et al., 2007) | α = .84 | X | — | — | X |
Maternal Health-Related Function | MOS Health Form (SF-12; Hurst, Ruta, & Kind, 1998) | X | X | X | X | |
Maternal Burden Factors | X | — | — | X | ||
Family Information Interview (FII) |
Notes. Reliability indices for this study; α = Cronbach’s alpha; IRR = interrater reliability; k = Kappa;
Timepoint: T1 = baseline, T2 = 14 weeks, T3 = 22 weeks, T4 = 26 weeks