. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 13.

Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2010 Oct 6;52(5):619–626. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02327.x

Table 2.

Post-hoc analysis of the gene–environment interaction between cumulative genetic plasticity and parenting quality for males

	Simple slope	Comparison group for Z-test for equality in regression slopes

	Parenting quality^a	0 or 1 plasticity alleles	2 plasticity alleles	3 plasticity alleles
0 or 1 plasticity alleles	−.40	–	–	–
2 plasticity alleles	1.99^*	1.53	–	–
3 plasticity alleles	2.46^*	1.79	.61	–
4 or 5 plasticity alleles	3.82^*	2.64^*	2.38^*	2.23^*

p < .05, two-tailed tests;

corrected for race.