Table 3.

Results of linear regression analysis assessing the association between degree of severity of childhood emotional neglect on depressive symptoms at age 18, adjusting for covariates.

	Model 1a				Model 2a				Model 3a
	β	SE	P-value	95% CI	β	SE	P-value	95% CI	β	SE	P-value	95% CI
Severity of emotional neglect
None	Ref.				Ref.				Ref.
Mild	0.15	0.06	<0.01*	(0.04, 0.27)	0.14	0.06	<0.01*	(0.03, 0.25)	−0.27	0.46	0.55	(−0.35, 0.88)
Moderate	0.31	0.07	<0.01*	(0.16, 0.46)	0.29	0.07	<0.01*	(0.15, 0.44)	−0.08	0.59	0.89	(−1.08, 1.24)
High	0.38	0.08	<0.01*	(0.22, 0.53)	0.36	0.08	<0.01*	(0.20, 0.51)	−0.78	0.60	0.19	(−1.96, 0.40)
Social support					−0.05	0.01	<0.01*	(−0.08, −0.03)	−0.07	0.02	<0.01*	(−0.10, −0.04)
Interaction term
None × social support									Ref.
Mild × social support									0.03	0.04	0.37	(−0.04, 0.10)
Moderate × social support									0.02	0.05	0.72	(−0.07, 0.10)
High × social support									0.09	0.05	0.06	(−0.01, 0.18)

^aCovariates included child's sex, child's race, mother's number of previous pregnancies, mother's age at child's birth, mother's marital status, maternal homeownership, maternal education, maternal psychopathology, and one-parent household.

^*α < 0.001.