Table 2.

Cross-sectional analysis (baseline only) linking negative self-reported psychological states to gender-specific stimulated cytokine levels

	Full Sample			Simple slopes
				Men			Women
	B a	CI	p	B b	CI	p	B b	CI	p
Depressive symptoms c	−0.033	[−0.071, −0.010]	.017	0.016	[−0.006, 0.039]	.154	−0.017	[−0.031, −0.002]	.027
Perceived Stress	−0.043	[−0.085, −0.015]	.013	0.027	[−0.001, 0.056]	.061	−0.016	[−0.034, 0.002]	.084
Rumination	−0.500	[−1.001, −0.209]	.002	0.314	[0.052, 0.576]	.020	−0.186	[−0.348, −0.023]	.026
Reflection	−0.206	[−0.471, 0.124]	.249	0.069	[−0.207, 0.344]	.625	−0.137	[−0.345, 0.070]	.197
Negative Affect	−0.020	[−0.037, −0.005]	.040	0.008	[−0.007, 0.022]	.322	−0.012	[−0.023, −0.001]	.035
Positive Affect	0.024	[0.008, 0.048]	.027	−0.017	[−0.035, 0.0002]	.055	0.006	[−0.005, 0.018]	.269

Notes:

^a.Represents the regression coefficient for the interaction between gender and a given negative self-reported psychological state. See supplemental materials for full model results.

^b.Represent the simple-slope for linking self-reported negative psychological states to stimulated cytokine levels for men and women

^c.The cross-sectional, gender-dependent association of depressive symptoms and individual cytokines (not a composite cytokine score) was reported previously for this sample in Majd et al., 2018