Table 4.

Goodness‐of‐fit (Akaike information criterion—AIC) and regression weights with 95% confidence intervals explaining depressive symptoms, and emotion‐regulation strategies (approach, avoidant, worry and externalizing), with the best fitting models and significant predictor variables shown in bold

	Model	AIC	Age	Gender	Neighbouring SES	Diagnosis	Age × Diagnosis	χ²
Depressive symptoms	0	–647.3
	1	–663.7	–.02 [–.03 to –.01]	–.01 [–.04 to .03]	–.02 [–.03 to –.00]			22.41***
	2	–671.9	–.02 [–.03 to –.01]	–.00 [–.04 to .03]	–.01 [–.03 to –.00]	.06 [.02 to .10]		10.27**
	3	–673.9	–.01 [–.02 to .00]	–.01 [–.04 to .03]	–.01 [–.02 to .01]	.06 [.02 to .10]	–.02 [–.03 to –.00]	3.92*
Approach	0	829.6
	1	789.5	.05 [.03 to .07]	.17 [.09 to .24]	.00 [–.03 to .03]			46.03***
	2	790.8	.05 [.03 to .07]	.17 [.09 to .24]	–.00 [–.03 to .03]	–.03 [–.10 to .05]		0.69
	3	792.7	.05 [.03 to .07]	.16 [.09 to .24]	–.00 [–.03 to .03]	–.03 [–.10 to .05]	–.01 [–.05 to .03]	0.19
Avoidant	0	778.7
	1	779.8	–.01 [–.03 to .01]	–.06 [–.13 to .01]	–.02 [–.05 to .02]			5.02
	2	776.5	–.01 [–.03 to .01]	–.05 [–.12 to .06]	–.01 [–.02 to .02]	.09 [.01 to .16]		5.24*
	3	778.3	–.01 [–.03 to .01]	–.05 [–.12 to .06]	–.01 [–.02 to .02]	.09 [.01 to .16]	–.01 [–.05 to .03]	0.23
Worry	0	767.2
	1	757.6	–.02 [–.04 to –.00]	.12 [.05 to .20]	–.02 [–.06 to .02]			15.61**
	2	759.0	–.02 [–.04 to –.00]	.13 [.05 to .21]	–.01 [–.06 to .02]	.04 [–.06 to .14]		0.67
	3	761.0	–.02 [–.04 to –.00]	.13 [.05 to .21]	–.01 [–.06 to .02]	.04 [–.06 to .14]	–.00 [–.04 to .04]	0.01
Externalizing	0	528.7
	1	533.0	.01 [–.01 to .02]	–.04 [–.12 to .02]	.00 [–.03 to .03]			1.71
	2	530.7	.00 [–.02 to .02]	–.04 [–.11 to .03]	.01 [–.02 to .04]	.08 [.00 to .15]		4.23
	3	531.3	.02 [–.02 to .02]	–.04 [–.11 to .03]	.01 [–.02 to .04]	.07 [–.00 to .15]	–.02 [–.06 to .02]	1.48

Note: ^* p < .05, ^** p < .01; ^*** p < .001.