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. 2018 Mar 10;4:280–290. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.03.002

Table 3.

The impact of permanent family income and maternal psychological distress on childhood behavioural outcomes at age 11 years: logit models - partial effects (SE).

Parent TDSa,b Teacher TDSa,b Internalising c
Externalising c
Emotional problems a,b Peer problemsa,b Conduct problems a,b Hyperactivity/Inattention problems a,b
log of permanent income -0.044*** (0.014) -0.052*** (0.016) -0.022 (0.016) -0.037** (0.016) -0.039*** (0.014) -0.026* (0.014)
Maternal psychological distress patternd
Never #
Early years only 0.002 (0.013) 0.002 (0.016) 0.031** (0.015) 0.019 (0.016) -0.001 (0.013) 0.003 (0.014)
Middle years only 0.039**(0.014) 0.035*(0.017) 0.025* (0.013) 0.063***(0.015) 0.023 (0.015) 0.027** (0.012)
Current (age 11) only 0.035**(0.013) 0.033 (0.021) 0.075*** (0.017) 0.048***(0.017) 0.050*** (0.016) 0.056*** (0.014)
Other pattern 0.079**(0.012) 0.024*(0.011) 0.116*** (0.014) 0.088***(0.014) 0.060*** (0.010) 0.085*** (0.013)
Recurrent 0.071**(0.009) 0.015 (0.010) 0.089*** (0.011) 0.076***(0.011) 0.058*** (0.009) 0.077*** (0.010)
Persistent 0.116**(0.018) 0.026 (0.018) 0.150*** (0.023) 0.107***(0.021) 0.121*** (0.021) 0.115*** (0.020)
Sample size 8499 4784 8499 8499 8499 8499

Notes: # Reference case;

a

Partial effects with standard errors in parentheses

b

Each regression included standard socioeconomic controls, child health endowment variables, family and external factor variables (see Methods section on data and variable definitions for details)

c

Individual subscales of SDQ from parent-completed survey

d

Maternal psychological distress measured using Kessler-6 scale at wave 2–5 and Rutter Malaise Inventory at wave 1

*

Significant at the 10-percent level;

**

Significant at the 5-percent level;

***

Significant at the 1-percent level.