Table 5.

Multilevel models predicting children’s cortisol levels at 7, 15, and 24 months of age (N = 1,184)

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Fixed effects
Intercept	−1.939	−1.878	−1.907
Time	−0.142***	−0.228***	−0.191***
Black NC	0.173***	0.134*	0.147**
White PA	0.020	−0.083	−0.067
Female	−0.040	−0.040	−0.039
Time of day	−0.057***	−0.058***	−0.058***
Moved	−0.007	−0.008	−0.008
Sensitive parenting	−0.054**	−0.053**	−0.052**
Cumulative family-level risk	0.000	0.000	0.000
Neighborhood disadvantage	0.067	0.040	−0.076
Neighborhood Disadvantage × Black NC	−0.066	−0.073	0.076
Neighborhood Disadvantage × White PA	−0.073	−0.072	0.009
Neighborhood Disadvantage × Time		0.048	0.212**
Black NC × Time		0.057	0.042
White PA × Time		0.159**	0.147*
Neighborhood Disadvantage × Black NC×Time			−0.210*
Neighborhood Disadvantage × White PA×Time			−0.098
Random effects
Level 1	0.470	0.467	0.466
Level 2	0.025	0.026	0.027

Note: NC, North Carolina; PA, Pennsylvania.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.