Table 3.

Bivariate correlations between parents’ separation anxiety and children’s psychiatric disorders and univariate descriptive statistics for children’s psychiatric disorders

	Separation anxiety		Social phobia		Generalized anxiety		Specific phobia		Depression
	Age 9	Ages 9–12	Age 9	Ages 9–12	Age 9	Ages 9–12	Age 9	Ages 9–12	Age 9	Ages 9–12
Maternal adult separation anxiety	0.14**	0.11*	0.00	0.04	0.16***	0.12**	0.03	0.01	0.14**	0.01
Paternal adult separation anxiety	0.03	0.19***	0.00	0.01	0.05	0.00	0.08^	0.01	0.02	−0.03
Proportion (n)	0.06 (28)	0.03 (16)	0.04 (18)	0.05 (23)	0.04 (21)	0.05 (22)	0.11 (56)	0.09 (45)	0.02 (11)	0.06 (29)

Notes:

^***p < 0.001;

^**p < 0.01;

^*p < 0.05;

^{^}p < 0.10.

Age 9 = wave 3 assessment, which covered child’s lifetime through age 9. Ages 9-12 = wave 5 assessment, which was done when children were 12 years old and covered the period since the age 9 assessment. Parents’ adult separation anxiety assessed at wave 3. Correlations with agoraphobia and panic disorder are not reported here because of low counts (<1%) but these variables are included in structural models.