TABLE 6.

Moderating effect of adolescents’ grade and gender on the relation between father-adolescent communication and adolescents’ depressive symptoms.

Variable	Depressive symptoms
	B	SE	t	p	95% CI
School rank
Above average	0.079	0.101	0.78	0.436	−0.120, 0.278
Best	–0.063	0.125	–0.50	0.615	−0.307, 0.181
School location
Urban-rural fringe area	–0.024	0.097	–0.249	0.803	−0.215, 0.167
Central urban area	0.283	0.099	2.860	0.004	0.089, 0.476
Family economic status
Middle income	–0.708	0.094	–7.51	<0.001	−0.893, −0.523
Rich	–0.693	0.164	–4.23	<0.001	−1.014, −0.372
Father education	0.050	0.024	2.10	0.036	0.003, 0.097
Mother education	–0.081	0.024	–3.33	0.001	−0.128, −0.033
Mother communication	–0.139	0.016	–8.66	<0.001	−0.171, −0.108
Father communication	–0.119	0.015	–7.88	<0.001	−0.149, −0.089
Grade	0.811	0.069	11.69	<0.001	0.675, 0.947
Gender	–0.506	0.070	–7.20	<0.001	−0.644, −0.369
Father communication × Grade	–0.039	0.024	–1.61	0.108	−0.088, 0.009
Father communication × Gender	0.031	0.024	1.30	0.195	−0.016, 0.079
Grade × Gender	–0.136	0.139	–0.98	0.327	−0.407, 0.136
Father communication × Grade × Gender	0.075	0.048	1.56	0.119	−0.019, 0.170

CI, confidence interval. Grade: 0 = 7th grade, 1 = 9th grade; Gender: 0 = girl, 1 = boy. Reference group: Medium and below on School rank; town and country on School location; poor family on Family economic status.