Table 2.

Effects of the Number of Early Childhood Adversities (ECAs) and Recent Stressful Life Experiences (SLEs) on Depressive Symptoms for 11,873 individuals with 82,764 observations across nine waves of data (1994–2010)

	Men			Women
Variable	b	SE	p-value	b	SE	p-value
Intercept	0.531	0.017	<.0001	0.714	0.012	<.0001
Age	−0.002	0.001	0.0004	−0.002	0.001	0.0035
Age*Age	0.001	0.00005	<.0001	0.0003	0.00004	<.0001
Medication Use (N=0,Y=1)	0.423	0.024	<.0001	0.390	0.016	<.0001
African American (vs. ref)	0.123	0.030	<.0001	0.124	0.023	<.0001
Hispanic/Latinx (vs. ref)	0.125	0.035	0.0003	0.276	0.030	<.0001
Other (vs. ref)	0.215	0.063	0.0006	0.188	0.054	0.0005
Education	−0.069	0.007	<.0001	−0.090	0.007	<.0001
Household Income	−0.065	0.007	<.0001	−0.075	0.006	<.0001
Married (N=0,Y=1)	0.057	0.045	0.2069	0.084	0.041	0.0417
Smoke (N=0,Ever=1)	0.037	0.019	0.0492	0.065	0.015	<.0001
Difficulty with ADLs	0.229	0.022	<.0001	0.243	0.016	<.0001
Difficulty with IADLs	0.272	0.034	<.0001	0.237	0.030	<.0001
Childhood Depression (N=0,Y=1)	0.538	0.068	<.0001	0.469	0.047	<.0001
Number of ECAs	0.066	0.010	<.0001	0.063	0.009	<.0001
No. of Recent SLEs: Interpersonal	0.163	0.014	<.0001	0.207	0.012	<.0001
No. of Recent SLEs: Medical	0.056	0.007	<.0001	0.081	0.006	<.0001
No. of Recent SLEs: Financial	0.032	0.006	<.0001	0.024	0.006	<.0001

Notes. Number of observations for N=4,715 men is 32,232; for N=7,158 women is 50,532.

b = standardized coefficients. SE = Standard error of the coefficient.

Race/Ethnicity reference is Non-Hispanic White. ADLs = Activities of Daily Living. IADLs = Instrumental ADLs.