. 2016 Aug 10;7:1156. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01156

Table 4.

Prediction of the level at t₃ (intercept) of children's BMI–SDS, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, as well as social competence (standardized regression coefficients β) and model fit indices of latent growth models and latent regression analysis.

	Child BMI–SDS (N = 194)	Child internalizing symptoms (N = 194)	Child externalizing symptoms (N = 194)	Child social competence (N = 118)
Model 1	R² = 0.13^*	R² = 0.09	R² = 0.13^*	R² = 0.17^*
Maternal BMI	0.37^***	0.18^†	0.35^***	−0.40^***
Maternal education	0.03	−0.14	−0.03	−0.07
Child age	−	0.14	0.06	−0.09
Child sex	−	0.02	−0.03	0.23^*
χ² (df)	15.32 (7)^*	246.43 (143)^***	293.18 (138)^***	20.48 (17)
CFI	0.96	0.85	0.88	0.96
RMSEA	0.08	0.06	0.08	0.04
Model 2a	R² = 0.13^*	R² = 0.31^***	R² = 0.33^***	R² = 0.32^**
Maternal BMI	0.36^***	0.07	0.22^**	−0.28^*
Maternal education	0.03	−0.13	−0.01	−0.09
Child age	−	0.10	0.01	−0.02
Child sex	−	0.00	−0.05	0.26^**
Maternal parenting stress	−0.03	0.49^***	0.47^***	−0.34^**
Maternal EA	−0.05	0.05	−0.06	0.28^*
Child EA	0.10	−0.15	−0.09	−0.13
χ² (df)	20.38 (13)	289.92 (185)^***	357.09 (180)^***	35.91 (26)
CFI	0.97	0.86	0.86	0.91
RMSEA	0.05	0.05	0.07	0.06
Model 2b	R² = 0.14^**	R² = 0.33^***	R² = 0.34^***	R² = 0.40^***
Maternal BMI	0.35^***	0.10	0.19^*	−0.30^*
Maternal education	0.03	−0.13	0.00	−0.11
Child age	−	0.12	0.01	−0.04
Child sex	−	0.00	−0.04	0.24^*
Maternal parenting stress	−0.04	0.49^***	0.45^***	−0.29^**
Maternal EA	−0.05	0.08	−0.05	0.24^*
Child EA	0.09	−0.21	−0.10	−0.06
BMI^*maternal parenting stress	0.08	0.00	0.12	−0.07
BMI^*EA mother	0.04	0.00	0.01	0.27^*
BMI^*EA child	−0.04	−0.13	0.00	−0.06
χ² (df)	28.81 (19)	341.65 (227)^***	399.22 (222)^***	49.11 (35)
CFI	0.96	0.85	0.86	0.88
RMSEA	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06

p < 0.05.

^**

p < 0.01.

^***

p < 0.001.

^†

p < 0.06. There were no significant effects of children's BMI–SDS at t₁, t₂, and t₃ on the concurrent levels of externalizing and internalizing symptoms or social competence (all p < 0.05).