Table 2.
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.