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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2022 Jan 26;53(7):3168–3177. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721005249

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for children’s anxiety and depressive symptoms from mother, father, and child report

Wave 3 (Age 9)
Wave 4 (Age 12)
M (S.D.) Range Complete rate M (S.D.) Range Complete rate
SCARED: Separation anxiety

 Mother   1.98 (2.38) 0–13 0.94   0.80 (1.38) 0–7 0.90

 Father   1.68 (1.98) 0–10 0.82   0.78 (1.28) 0–10 0.73

 Child   5.30 (3.28) 0–15 0.93   2.53 (2.24) 0–15 0.91

SCARED: Total excluding separation anxiety

 Mother   5.98 (6.47) 0–43 0.94   7.15 (7.10) 0–40 0.90

 Father   5.06 (5.27) 0–31 0.82   6.26 (6.06) 0–39 0.73

 Child 14.49 (9.08) 0–53 0.93 14.21 (9.10) 0–52 0.91

CDI

 Mother   7.32 (4.90) 0–29 0.94   7.14 (5.04) 0–27 0.91

 Father   7.32 (4.41) 0–23 0.82   7.53 (5.03) 0–24 0.73

 Child   4.89 (4.21) 0–22 0.93   4.90 (5.41) 0–33 0.90

Notes: For mothers, n = 515. For fathers, n = 510. For children, n = 515. SCARED, Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders; CDI, Children’s Depression Inventory.