Table 2.
The impact of a history of prior depressive episodes on key path estimates of the modela
Wave | All/prior MD |
Path estimates: Wave DV→MD onset |
Path estimates: Wave DV→SLE |
Path estimates: SLE→SLE |
Path estimates: SLE→MD onset |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | All | 0.70 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.30 |
Prior | 0.59 | 0.49 | 0.18 | 0.17 | |
2 | All | 0.70 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.33 |
Prior | 0.65 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.22 | |
3 | All | 0.78 | 0.22 | 0.09 | 0.20 |
Prior | 0.73 | 0.50 | 0.06 | 0.12 | |
4 | All | 0.78 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.21 |
Prior | 0.75 | 0.44 | 0.14 | 0.09 |
DV, Depressive vulnerability; MD, major depression; SLE, stressful life event.
For all the models, value of RMSEA was ⩽0.02, CFI ⩾0.91 and TLE ⩾0.90.