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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Early Adolesc. 2012 Dec;32(6):824–850. doi: 10.1177/0272431611429945

Table 4.

Test of Mediation: Age of Menarche

Predictors Other-sex stress
Depression
β t ΔR2 β t ΔR2
Step 1
 Earlier age of menarche .39 2.22** .15 .43 2.45** .18
Step 2
 Earlier age of menarche .28 1.56*
 Other-sex stress .39 2.22**

Note: βs and ts represent standardized coefficients and t statistics at each step; ΔR2 represents percentage of variance accounted for at each step.

*

p < .10.

**

p < .05.

***

p < .01.

****

p < .001.