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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2022 Jan 25;35(2):619–629. doi: 10.1017/S0954579421001760

Table 3.

Associations between participant characteristics and child negative affectivity

Participant Characteristics Test Statistic p-value

Maternal socioeconomic status composite −.17a^ .06
Maternal age −.21b* .02
Cohabitation status 1.73b .32
Maternal race/ethnicity 1.46c .24
Foreign-born 3.10b .71
Maternal early life adversity .001 .99
Parity .46c .63
Time from preconception assessment to conception −.16a .11
Gestational age at birth .11a .25
Child age .14a .17
Child sex .01b .71
Concurrent maternal depressive symptoms .14a .13
Study site .60c .55

Note: Reported tests statistics are

a

Spearman’s rho

b

t, or

c

F.

Maternal childhood adversity was assessed via the Risk Families Questionnaire. Concurrent maternal depressive symptoms were assessed via the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Inventory (CES-D).

^

p < .1.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.