Table 4.

Effects of maternal infection and choline level at 16 weeks gestation on child’s IBQ-R indices at 3 months of age

Source	Wilk’s λ	IBQ-R Indices	F (df 1,124)	Sig.
Child sex	λ = .997	SURGENCY	.067	.797
	Fdf3,124= .139	NEGATIVITY	.114	.736
	P= .937	REGULATION	.350	.555
Maternal age	λ = .975	SURGENCY	1.560	.214
	Fdf3,124= 1.079	NEGATIVITY	.279	.598
	P= .361	REGULATION	.246	.621
Maternal obesity	λ = .939	SURGENCY	1.422	.235
	Fdf3,124= 2.694	NEGATIVITY	7.620	.0071
	P= .049	REGULATION	.151	.699
Maternal depression	λ = .991	SURGENCY	.221	.639
	Fdf3,124= .778	NEGATIVITY	.952	.331
	P= .937	REGULATION	.082	.776
Maternal infection 16 wks	λ = .924	SURGENCY	1.411	.237
	Fdf3,124= 3.422	NEGATIVITY	.551	.459
	P= .019	REGULATION	10.184	.0022
Maternal choline 16 wks	λ = .997	SURGENCY	.059	.809
	Fdf3,124= .116	NEGATIVITY	.003	.959
	P= .940	REGULATION	.103	.749
Infection* choline	λ = .922	SURGENCY	2.629	.107
	Fdf3,124= 3.515	NEGATIVITY	.255	.614
	P= .017	REGULATION	10.709	.0013
Effect of maternal infection 16 wks, compared to uninfected: Difference (SE)		SURGENCY	−.887 (SE .747)	.237
		NEGATIVITY	.456 (SE .626)	.359
		REGULATION	−1.442 (SE .452)	.0022

Bonferroni correction

¹P = .021;

²P = .006;

³P = .003