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Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2021 Jun 22;38(12):1267–1278. doi: 10.1002/da.23185

Table 5.

Mother-Perceived Toddler Anxiety: Path Model Coefficients

Variable	b (SE)	β	t	P	95% CI (b)
DV = T2 maternal anxiety (R² = .67)
T1 toddler anxiety	0.18 (0.20)	0.06	0.89	.372	[−0.21, 0.57]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.79 (0.06)	0.79	12.83	<001	[0.67, 0.91]
DV = T2 toddler anxiety (R² = .32)
T1 toddler anxiety	0.50 (0.09)	0.49	5.36	<001	[0.32, 0.68]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.06 (0.03)	0.15	1.65	.100	[−0.01, 0.12]
DV = T2 solicited comforting behavior (R² = .17)
T1 toddler anxiety	19.11 (5.09)	0.40	3.76	.000	[9.14, 29.08]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.49 (1.67)	0.03	0.30	.768	[−2.78, 3.77]
DV = T3 maternal anxiety (R² = .82)
Maternal age at birth of child	−0.01 (0.01)	−0.09	−1.87	.062	[−0.03, 0.00]
T1 toddler anxiety	0.08 (0.18)	0.03	0.45	.653	[−0.27, 0.43]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.55 (0.09)	0.55	6.15	<001	[0.37, 0.72]
T2 toddler anxiety	0.27 (0.16)	0.10	1.64	.100	[−0.05, 0.59]
T2 maternal anxiety	0.29 (0.08)	0.29	3.48	<001	[0.13, 0.46]
T2 comforting behavior	0.008 (0.003)	0.13	2.61	.009	[0.002, 0.013]
DV = T3 toddler anxiety (R² = .51)
T1 toddler anxiety	−0.04 (0.12)	−0.04	−0.38	.703	[−0.27, 0.18]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.02 (0.06)	0.07	0.41	.679	[−0.09, 0.14]
T2 toddler anxiety	0.60 (0.09)	0.61	6.60	<001	[0.42, 0.78]
T2 maternal anxiety	0.02 (0.06)	0.04	0.27	.784	[−0.09, 0.12]
T2 comforting behavior	0.004 (0.002)	0.21	2.36	.018	[0.001, 0.008]
DV = T3 solicited comforting behavior (R² = .20)
T1 toddler anxiety	9.03 (7.12)	0.18	1.27	.205	[−4.92, 22.98]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.69 (3.77)	0.04	0.18	.855	[−6.71, 8.09]
T2 toddler anxiety	7.01 (5.75)	0.14	1.22	.223	[−8.15, 23.82]
T2 maternal anxiety	−1.04 (3.49)	−0.06	−0.30	.766	[−4.27, 18.29]
T2 comforting behavior	0.30 (0.10)	0.28	2.96	.003	[0.10, 0.49]

Note. The model showed good fit according to chi-square test (χ2[5] = 4.45, p = .487), RMSEA (0.00, 90% CI [0.00, 0.10], CFI (1.00), TLI (1.00), and SRMR (0.02). The correlation was significant between T1 toddler anxiety and T1 maternal anxiety (r = 37, p < .001). Also modeled were residual correlations betweenT2 toddler anxiety and T2 maternal anxiety (r = .15, p = .170, T2 solicited comforting with both T2 toddler anxiety (r = .04, p = .712) and T2 maternal anxiety (r = .19, p = .077), T3 toddler anxiety and T3 maternal anxiety (r = .17, p = .154) and T3 solicited comforting with those of T3 toddler anxiety (r = .25, p = .032) and T3 maternal anxiety (r = −.15, p = .187).