Table 4.

Maternal depression and adolescent stress predicting adolescent anxious/depressed symptoms

Block and predictor	b	95% CI	β	t	sr2	df	F	Adjusted R2	ΔR2
Block 1						105	1.81	0.05	–
Mother depression history	0.32	[0.02, 0.63]	0.20	2.08*	0.04
Block 2						102	10.36***	0.46	0.46***
Mother depression history	− 0.01	[− 0.26, 0.24]	− 0.01	− 0.11	0.00
Adolescent family stress	0.25	[0.10, 0.40]	0.26	3.10**	0.05
Adolescent peer stress	0.40	[0.24, 0.56]	0.39	4.97***	0.12
Mother BDI-II	0.02	[0.01, 0.03]	0.25	2.92**	0.04
Block 3						99	11.80***	0.56	0.12***
Mother depression history	0.07	[− 0.16, 0.29]	0.04	0.57	0.00
Adolescent family stress	0.24	[0.10, 0.38]	0.26	3.31***	0.04
Adolescent peer stress	0.31	[0.16, 0.46]	0.30	4.10***	0.06
Mother BDI-II	0.02	[0.004, 0.03]	0.20	2.56**	0.03
BDI-II × family stress	0.01	[− 0.003, 0.02]	0.11	1.43	0.01
BDI-II × peer stress	0.02	[0.003, 0.03]	0.20	2.44*	0.02
Family stress × peer stress	0.16	[− 0.03, 0.35]	0.14	1.64	0.01

All three blocks controlled for maternal education, employment, and martial status, as well as adolescent age, gender, and ethnicity. Maternal unemployment significantly predicted more adolescent anxious/depressed symptoms in the Block 1 (β = − 0.21, p = 0.03), but this effect disappeared after accounting for adolescent stress and mother depression symptoms in Block 2. The effects of the remaining covariates were nonsignificant and omitted from the table for brevity

N = 113, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory-II, CI confidence interval

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.

^***p ≤ 0.001