Table 3.
The effect of maternal preeclampsia and antenatal depression on infant temperament at 6 months (N=141)
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| Unadjusted | Adjusted | Unadjusted | Adjusted | |||||||||
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| Infant temperament | Yes (N=24) Mean (SD) |
No (N=117) Mean (SD) |
F-value | p | F-value | p | Yes (N=24) Mean (SD) |
No (N=117) Mean (SD) |
F-value | p | F-value | p |
| Activity Level | 4.16 (1.34) | 4.27 (1.17) | 0.05 | .83 | 0.13 | .72 | 4.38 (1.08) | 4.11 (1.25) | 1.00 | .32 | 0.71 | .40 |
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| Distress Level | 3.71 (1.14) | 3.88 (1.32) | 0.27 | .60 | 0.30 | .58 | 4.14 (1.11) | 3.64 (1.31) | 3.05 | .08 | 1.27 | .26 |
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| Fearfulness | 3.43 (1.07) | 3.59 (1.29) | 0.08 | .78 | 0.24 | .63 | 3.79 (1.57) | 3.44 (1.31) | 1.35 | .25 | 0.30 | .59 |
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| Duration | 4.75 (1.49) | 4.78 (1.43) | 0.03 | .88 | 0.01 | .92 | 4.69 (1.79) | 4.93 (1.36) | 0.51 | .48 | 0.79 | .38 |
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| Smile/laughter | 5.75 (0.94) | 5.57 (1.28) | 0.13 | .72 | 0.44 | .51 | 6.14 (0.94) | 5.81 (1.12) | 2.84 | .09 | 1.54 | .22 |
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| High pleasure seeking | 6.04 (1.21) | 5.84 (1.02) | 0.77 | .46 | 0.58 | .45 | 5.34 (1.58) | 6.18 (0.98) | 3.68 | .05 | 6.17 | .01 |
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| Low pleasure seeking | 6.04 (0.83) | 5.57 (0.89) | 4.53 | .04 | 5.39 | .02 | 5.48 (0.70) | 5.83 (0.90) | 3.55 | .06 | 2.41 | .12 |
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| Soothability | 5.27 (1.26) | 5.37 (0.99) | 1.58 | .21 | 1.32 | .25 | 4.93 (1.06) | 5.65 (0.96) | 9.71 | .002 | 5.71 | .02 |
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| Falling Reactivity | 4.92 (1.49) | 4.87 (1.04) | 0.04 | .84 | 0.04 | .85 | 4.56 (1.22) | 5.33 (0.99) | 10.55 | .001 | 12.70 | .001 |
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| Cuddliness | 5.71 (1.05) | 5.75 (0.97) | 0.28 | .60 | 0.03 | .86 | 5.53 (0.98) | 5.94 (0.95) | 3.38 | .07 | 2.22 | .14 |
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| Perceptional sensitivity | 4.80 (1.78) | 4.26 (1.62) | 2.69 | .10 | 1.88 | .17 | 4.39 (1.55) | 4.41 (1.71) | 0.03 | .87 | 0.19 | .67 |
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| Sadness | 3.61 (1.39) | 3.59 (1.19) | 0.25 | .62 | 0.01 | .94 | 4.09 (1.35) | 3.13 (1.13 | 12.45 | .001 | 8.65 | .004 |
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| Approach | 5.25 (0.90) | 5.12 (1.43) | 0.39 | .54 | 0.17 | .68 | 4.94 (1.72) | 5.38 (1.31) | 2.02 | .16 | 1.94 | .17 |
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| Vocal Reactivity | 5.90 (0.86) | 5.48 (1.05) | 3.91 | .05 | 2.99 | .09 | 5.52 (1.27) | 5.59 (1.02) | 0.14 | .71 | 0.07 | .79 |
NB: In the adjusted model 1, maternal education, maternal marital status, maternal age, maternal smoking during pregnancy, parity, sex of the child, and depressive symptomatology when the time of the postpartum assessment (when the child was 3 months old) have been statistically controlled for. Multivariable GLM was used.