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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2019 Nov 1;215(5):675–682. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.24

Table 3. Fully adjusted structural equation model output for class membership predicting midlife cognitive function.

Predictors Immediate memory Delayed memory Verbal fluency Processing Speed Accuracy
b SE P b SE P b SE P b SE P b SE P
Affective symptom trajectories:
    No affective symptoms
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    Mild/moderate affective symptoms -0.09 0.04 .03 a 0.03 0.05 .58 -0.32 0.18 .08 0.96 2.66 .72 0.10 0.12 .41
    Initially low and rapidly increasing affective symptoms -0.16 0.07 .03 -0.23 0.09 .007 -0.23 0.30 .45 7.02 4.50 .12 0.50 0.21 .02
    Initially high and persistently increasing affective symptoms -0.25 0.07 <.001 -0.23 0.09 .006 -0.79 0.30 .01 -2.80 4.48 .53 0.17 0.21 .42
    Initially high and steadily decreasing affective symptoms -0.15 0.07 .04 -0.17 0.09 .05 -0.59 0.31 .06 3.95 4.69 .40 0.24 0.22 .26
Sex 0.19 0.04 <.001 0.35 0.04 <.001 -0.33 0.16 .03 23.66 2.32 <.001 0.40 0.11 <.001
Childhood affective problems <.001 0.002 .87 -0.002 0.003 .50 -0.01 0.10 .55 0.05 0.15 .75 0.02 0.01 .001
Childhood cognition 0.02 0.001 <.001 0.03 0.002 <.001 0.09 0.01 <.001 0.29 0.09 .001 -0.05 0.004 <.001
Child socioeconomic position -0.01 0.02 .60 0.002 0.03 .94 -0.40 0.10 <.001 0.53 1.56 .73 -0.02 0.07 .82
Adult socioeconomic position -0.08 0.02 .001 -0.07 0.03 .02 -0.23 0.11 .03 -5.83 1.57 <.001 -0.09 0.07 .24
Education 0.08 .009 <.001 0.11 0.01 <.001 0.37 0.04 <.001 1.96 0.58 .001 0.07 0.03 .007
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Bold values represent estimates significant at the P < .05 level.