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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2017 Feb;48(1):94–106. doi: 10.1007/s10578-016-0656-1

Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations of Study Variables for Families of Mothers who were Depressed during her Child’s Lifetime and Families of Mothers who were not Depressed during her Child’s Lifetime

Mother Depressed
Mother Not Depressed
t p
M (SD) M (SD)
Children’s CBCL Internalizing Problems 53.25 (9.57) 45.78 (9.94) −3.27 .002
Mother’s Sad Expressiveness 3.61 (0.69) 3.46 (0.69) −0.49 .65
Mother’s Angry Expressiveness 3.57 (0.84) 3.48 (0.84) −0.90 .37
Mother’s Happy Expressiveness 3.61 (0.69) 3.38 (0.84) −0.21 .84
Children’s Information-Seeking (Cognitive Empathy) 1.94 (0.53) 2.08 (0.60) 0.55 .59
Children’s Negative Affective Empathy 1.55 (0.50) 1.78 (0.59) 1.18 .24
Children’s Positive Affective Empathy 1.72 (0.33) 1.71 (0.64) 0.51 .61

Notes. “Mother Depressed” is coded as “1” and indicates the mother’s depression symptoms during her child’s lifetime met criteria for major depressive disorder or dysthymic disorder, and “Mother Not Depressed” is coded as “0” and indicates the mother’s symptoms did not meet criteria for a depression disorder during her child’s lifetime.