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. 2016 Jul 15;199:54–64. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.03.049

Table 5.

Current parental depression, offspring executive functioning and their interaction predicting offspring cognitive-emotional and vegetative-somatic depressive symptoms.

Inhibitory control errors
Mental generativity
Shifting costs
Cognitive symptoms (N=183)
Vegetative symptoms (N=184)
Cognitive symptoms (N=256)
Vegetative symptoms (N=258)
Cognitive symptoms (N=182)
Vegetative symptoms (N=183)
∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p ∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p ∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p ∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p ∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p ∆R2 p B(S.E.) β p
Step 1 .02 .17 .07 <.01 .02 .07 .08 <.001 .02 .19 .06 <.01
Gender of child .25(.16) .12 .12 .20(.17) .09 .23 .22(.13) .10 .09 .22(.14) .10 .11 .24(.16) .11 .127 .19(.17) .08 .26
Age of child .08(.08) .07 .33 .28(.08) .24 <.01 .10(.07) .09 .14 .29(.07) .25 <.001 .08(.08) .07 .351 .28(.08) .24 <.01
Step 2 .05 <.01 .02 <.05 .03 <.01 .01 .11 .04 <.01 .02 .05
Gender of child .31(.16) .15 <.05 .25(.17) .11 .14 .27(.13) .13 <.05 .25(.14) .11 .07 .31(.16) .14 .051 .24(.17) .10 .16
Age of child .05(.08) .05 .52 .26(.08) .22 <.01 .08(.07) .07 .25 .28(.07) .24 <.001 .05(.08) .04 .537 .26(.08) .22 <.01
IQ of child −.26(.09) −.22 <.01 −.18(.09) −.14 <.05 −.21(.07) −.18 <.01 −.12(.07) −.10 .11 −.25(.09) −.22 <.01 −.18(.09) -.14 .05
Step 3 .12 <.001 .09 <.001 .06 <.001 .02 .10 .11 <.001 .05 <.01
Gender of child .32(.15) .15 <.05 .33(.16) .14 <.05 .25(.13) .12 .05 .24(.14) .10 .09 .26(.15) .12 .083 .21(.16) .09 .21
Age of child .14(.08) .13 .09 .38(.09) .33 <.001 .09(.07) .09 .17 .29(.07) .25 <.001 .08(.08) .07 .300 .28(.08) .24 <.01
IQ of child −.21(.08) −.18 <.05 −.12(.09) -.10 .18 −.19(.08) −.16 <.05 −.10(.08) −.08 .25 −.22(.08) -.19 <.01 −.16(.9) −.12 .08
Current PD .92(.18) .34 <.001 .66(.20) .22 <.01 .65(.16) .24 <.001 .37(.18) .13 <.05 .92(.19) .34 <.001 .66(.21) .22 <.01
EF measure (child) .15(.08) .14 .07 .28(.09) .24 <.01 −.02(.07) −.02 .81 −.03(.08) −.03 .68 −.01(.07) −.01 .873 −.01(.08) −.01 .87
Step 4 .02 <.05 .02 <.05 .02 <.05 .004 .32 .03 <.01 .01 .14
Gender of child .29(.15) .14 .05 .29(.16) .12 .08 .24(.13) .11 .07 .23(.14) .10 .10 .20(.15) .10 .171 .17(.17) .07 .30
Age of child .12(.08) .12 .12 .37(.09) .32 <.001 .08(.07) .08 .20 .29(.07) .25 <.001 .09(.07) .08 .233 .28(.08) .24 <.01
IQ of child −.20(.08) −.17 <.05 −.12(.09) -.09 .19 −.16(.08) −.14 <.05 −.09(.08) −.07 .30 −.20(.08) −.17 <.05 −.14(.09) −.11 .12
Current PD .94(.18) .35 <.001 .69(.20) .23 <.01 .61(.16) .22 <.001 .36(.18) .12 <.05 .89(.19) .33 <.001 .64(.21) .22 <.01
EF measure (child) .08(.09) .08 .33 .21(.09) .18 <.05 .06(.08) .06 .45 .00(.08) .00 .99 −.11(.08) −.10 .189 −.07(.09) −.06 .43
EF measure (child) X Current PD .44(.22) .14 <.05 .49(.24) .15 <.05 −.40(.16) −.17 <.05 −.17(.17) −.07 .32 .48(.18) .21 <.01 .30(.20) .12 .14

PD=Parental depression.

Total R2 of regression analyses: Inhibitory control errors: Cognitive symptoms- R2=.21; Vegetative symptoms- R2=.20, Mental generativity: Cognitive symptoms- R2=.13; Vegetative symptoms- R2=.11; Shifting costs: Cognitive symptoms – R2=.21; Vegetative symptoms – R2=.14.