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Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2020 Mar;50(3):779–797. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04308-2

Table 4:

Multilevel Models Predicting Maternal Mental Health from Child Challenging Behaviors

	Maternal Depression		Maternal Tension/Anxiety		Maternal Anger/Hostility
Model for the Means	Est.	SE	Est.	SE	Est.	SE
Intercept	11.55	7.11	10.29^**	4.40	3.45	4.52
Maternal CGG Repeat Length	−0.04	0.03	−0.03^{^}	0.02	−0.01	0.02
Maternal IQ	.0002	.05	0.001	0.03	0.03	0.03
Maternal Medication	2.23	1.91	1.04	1.17	−1.21	1.21
Child Challenging Behavior Effects
Level-2 Between-Dyad	0.13^**	0.04	0.11^**	0.03	0.12^*	0.03
Level-1 Within-Dyad	0.13^*	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.03
Contextual Effect	0.01	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.08^{^}	0.04
Model for the Variance
Random Intercept Variance	19.72^*	6.28	5.22^**	2.43	7.67^*	2.61
Residual Variance	23.66^*	3.84	14.67^*	2.35	10.30^*	1.69
Total R²	0.23		0.30		0.24

Note.

p < 0.01,

^**

p ≤ 0.05,

^{^}

p < 0.10.