Table 5.
Linear regression models with interaction between maternal mental health and well-being and household type or employment status predicting child activity patterns controlling for relevant covariates.
| Child Average Daily MVPA (Log Transformed) | Child Average Minutes of SB Per Valid Hour | |||||||
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| Self-Esteem | 0.171 | 0.168 | 0.310 | 0.217 | −0.234 | 0.171 | 0.172 | 0.188 |
| Life Satisfaction | 0.212 | 0.158 | 0.181 | 0.221 | −0.160 | 0.163 | 0.330 | 0.171 |
| Perceived Stress | −0.078 | 0.164 | 0.636 | 0.211 | 0.009 | 0.140 | 0.949 | 0.177 |
| Depressive Symptoms | −0.035 | 0.166 | 0.835 | 0.216 | 0.226 | 0.171 | 0.186 | 0.180 |
| Anxiety | −0.128 | 0.188 | 0.495 | 0.220 | 0.189 | 0.191 | 0.322 | 0.173 |
| Parenting Stress | −0.343* | 0.148 | 0.021 | 0.237 | 0.321* | 0.151 | 0.035 | 0.190 |
| Financial Stress | −0.123 | 0.154 | 0.425 | 0.225 | 0.028 | 0.158 | 0.861 | 0.183 |
| Life Events Stress | −0.087 | 0.138 | 0.529 | 0.217 | −0.012 | 0.144 | 0.936 | 0.172 |
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| Interaction between Maternal Variables and Employment Status | ||||||||
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| Self-Esteem | 0.072 | 0.136 | 0.597 | 0.231 | −0.087 | 0.143 | 0.544 | 0.184 |
| Life Satisfaction | 0.071 | 0.138 | 0.607 | 0.227 | −0.025 | 0.145 | 0.865 | 0.176 |
| Perceived Stress | 0.134 | 0.134 | 0.318 | 0.226 | 0.008 | 0.140 | 0.955 | 0.173 |
| Depressive Symptoms | 0.092 | 0.145 | 0.524 | 0.232 | −0.201 | 0.150 | 0.184 | 0.184 |
| Anxiety | 0.051 | 0.143 | 0.719 | 0.236 | −0.071 | 0.149 | 0.635 | 0.172 |
| Parenting Stress | −0.062 | 0.134 | 0.645 | 0.228 | 0.113 | 0.140 | 0.418 | 0.177 |
| Financial Stress | −0.155 | 0.133 | 0.246 | 0.244 | 0.173 | 0.138 | 0.213 | 0.196 |
| Life Events Stress | 0.026 | 0.132 | 0.845 | 0.227 | 0.157 | 0.137 | 0.254 | 0.183 |
Note: Standardized betas for interaction terms are displayed in the table. Each independent variable was run in a separate model that included each aspect of maternal mental health and well-being as well as an interaction between the aspect of maternal mental health and either household type (single-parent household/dual-parent or multigenerational household) or maternal employment status (working full-time/not working full-time). Models predicting child physical activity included child age and child sex as covariates. Models predicting child sedentary behavior included child age, child ethnicity, and child accelerometer wear time as covariates. For all maternal mental health constructs, higher scores indicate more of that construct. The sample size for data analysis included 191 mother-child dyads.
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