Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2018 Aug;46(6):1217–1228. doi: 10.1007/s10802-017-0361-y

Table 5.

Multivariate Estimates of Genetic and Environmental Variance (and 95% Confidence Intervals) from the Longitudinal Bivariate Common Pathway Reduced Model

Age 2 Variance Components
a2 c2 e2

Latent EXT Phenotype .92
(.86–.97)
.08
(.03–.14)
Common Variance
Specific Variance
Total Variance
Loading on EXT Phenotype a2 c2 e2 a2 c2 e2 a2 c2 e2
CU .69
(.63–.75)
.45
(.37–.52)
.04
(.01–.07)
.27
(.18–35)
.25
(.19–.32)
.72
(.55–.87)
.29
(.20–.39)
ADHD .77
(.72–.82)
.55
(.47–.63)
.05
(.02–.08)
.18
(.11–26)
.22
(.16–.29)
.73
(.58–.89)
.27
(.18–37)
ODD .78
(.73–.82)
.56
(.48–.64)
.05
(.02–.08)
.16
(.09–.24)
.23
(.17–.30)
.72
(.57–.88)
.28
(.19–38)

Age 3 Variance Components
a2 c2 e2

Latent EXT Phenotype .83
(.75–.89)
.17
(.11–.25)
Common Variance
Specific Variance
Total Variance
Loading on EXT Phenotype a2 c2 e2 a2 c2 e2 a2 c2 e2

CU .71
(.65–.76)
.41
(.34–.49)
.09
(.06–.13)
.21
(.13–30)
.28
(.22–.37)
.62
(.47–.79)
.37
(.28–.50)
ADHD .78
(.72–.82)
.50
(.41–.58)
.10
(.07–.15)
.26
(.18–35)
.14
(.09–.20)
.76
(.59–.93)
.24
(.16–35)
ODD .78
(.73–.83)
.51
(.42–.59)
.11
(.07–.16)
.19
(.11–27)
.20
(.14–.27)
.70
(.53–.86)
.31
(.21–.43)

Note. a2 = genetic variance, c2 = shared environmental variance, e2 = nonshared environmental variance