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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2021 Apr 5;49(9):1125–1138. doi: 10.1007/s10802-020-00765-x

Table 2.

Multilevel Models of Daily Associations between Parent-Adolescent Digital Exchanges and Mental Health

Offline Parent-Adolescent Interactions
Conduct
Inattention/Hyperactivity
Depression
Worry
b (SE)
OR
p
b (SE)
β
p
b (SE)
β
p
b (SE)
β
p
Engagement
 Daily β1 .48 (.18)* 1.62 .007 .12 (.03)* .08 <.001 −.52 (.47) −.02 .270 .57 (.70) .02 .411
 Person-m slope γ01 .81 (.52) 2.24 .116 .33 (.16) .12 .040 3.71 (2.15) .09 .084 5.18 (2.92) .09 .077
Support Seeking
 Daily β1 .65 (.25)* 1.91 .010 .13 (.06) .04 .022 −.51 (.81) −.01 .524 1.71 (1.28) .02 .180
 Person-m slope γ01 3.40 (1.00)* 29.93 .001 1.20 (.34)* .18 <.001 16.71 (4.91)* .18 .001 26.65 (6.26)* .21 <.001
Solicitation
 Daily β1 .43 (.18) 1.54 .019 .15 (.04)* .08 <.001 .09 (.59) .<.01 .880 .45 (.88) .01 .612
 Person-m slope γ01 −.21 (.60) .81 .729 .06 (.18) .02 .750 .98 (2.35) .02 .677 .24 (3.29) <.01 .941
Disclosure
 Daily β1 .36 (.20) 1.43 .077 .13 (.04)* .07 .001 −.99 (.55) −.04 .072 −.04 (.81) >−.01 .963
Person-m slope γ01 .04 (.58) 1.04 .951 .15 (.18) .05 .397 1.68 (2.31) .04 .467 2.24 (3.23) .04 .489
 Control .74 (.27)* 2.09 .006 .13 (.06) .05 .025 −.62 (.90) −.02 .494 1.68 (1.41) .03 .233
Daily β1
Person-m slope γ01 3.15 (.91)* 23.24 .001 1.04 (.32)* .19 .002 7.59 (5.01) .10 .130 9.42 (5.77) .09 .103

Associations between each type of parent-adolescent digital exchange each mental health domain are tested in separate multilevel models alongside covariates of daily school attendance and person-level mean school attendance, age, gender, economic disadvantage, and dummy coded race/ethnicity. Significant relations bolded

*

indicates coefficients which met FDR-corrected significance level. Raw regression coefficients (standard errors) reported

OR Odds Ratio, β standardized regression coefficient. All models employ FIML to handle missingness on level 1 and level 2 (5270 days, N=388)