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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychol. 2019 Jan 28;147:107656. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.016

Table 2.

Correlations between Major Study Variables (All Participants)

High/Low Depressive Symptoms Social Support (Father) Social Support (Others) Neuroticism TSST AUCg TSST Mean Increase TSST Max Increase CAR AUCg CAR Mean Increase CAR Max Increase Diurnal Slope
High/Low Depressive Symptoms
Social Support (Father) −.37**
Social Support (Others) −.14 .11
Neuroticism −.31* .01 −.11
TSST AUCg .22 .24 −.01 −.14
TSST Mean Increase −.21 −.07 .26 −.25 −.01
TSST Max Increase −.27 −.09 .18 −.23 −.26 .82***
CAR AUCg −.20 .22 .31 .19 .12 −.04 −.04
CAR Mean Increase −.33 .07 .24 −.08 −.04 .40* .36* .40*
CAR Max Increase −.11 .05 .07 −.36 .07 42** .32* −.07 .75***
Diurnal Slope −.16 −.09 .15 .53** −.33 −.11 −.13 .39* −.13 −.13

Point-biserial correlations conducted for depressive symptoms. Partial point-biserial correlations controlling for GA conducted for all cortisol summary scores.

***

p < .001,

**

p < .01,

*

p < .05,

p < .10 (marginal)