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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychol. 2018 Nov 2;147:107614. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.10.016

Table 2.

Correlations among primary study variables

1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 8. 9. 10.
1. Prenatal depressive symptoms 1.0
2. Prenatal economic hardship .346** 1.0
3. Prenatal negative life events .332** .319** 1.0
4. Mother’s birth country1 −.089 .092 −182** 1.0
5. Time of day (12 weeks) −.085 .058 −.001 .066 1.0
6. Dyadic dysregulation2 .114 .037 .212** .041 .061 1.0
7. Infant cortisol AUCg .052 .188* .104 −.015 −.225** .219** 1.0
8. Maternal cortisol AUCg .006 .035 −.044 −.022 −.539** −.048 .317** 1.0
9. Infant cortisol reactivity3 .129 .101 .149* .086 .000 .275** .558** .040 1.0
10. Maternal cortisol reactivity3 .035 .072 .016 .067 .000 .002 .101 .304** .206** 1.0
11. Postpartum depressive symptoms at 24 weeks .394** .241** .140* −.057 −.042 .060 .200** .097 .109 .076
1

Coded 0 = U.S., 1 = Mexico

2

Mean across all four tasks

3

Residualized change score from regression of pre-task cortisol on first post-task cortisol

*

p < .05

**

p < .01