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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2015 May 21;45(12):2583–2594. doi: 10.1017/S0033291715000501

Table 1.

Intraclass correlations for the relationships between twin parental depression and offspring internalizing/externalizing problems (95% confidence intervalsin parentheses)

MZ twin families
DZ twin families
Twin 1 Twin 2 Offspring 1 Twin 1 Twin 2 Offspring 1
Parental depression and offspring internalizing
 Twin 2 0.35 (0.26–0.43) 0.14 (0.04–0.23)
 Offspring 1 0.26 (0.21–0.30) 0.07 (0.00–0.14) 0.26 (0.21–0.30) 0.04 (−0.03–0.10)
 Offspring 2 0.07 (0.00–0.14) 0.26 (0.21–0.30) 0.16 (0.06–0.25) 0.04 (−00.03–0.10) 0.26 (0.21–0.30) 0.10 (0.01–0.19)
Parental depression and offspring externalizing
 Twin 2 0.35 (0.26–0.43) 0.13 (0.04–0.22)
 Offspring 1 0.18 (0.14–0.23) 0.09 (0.02–0.16) 0.18 (0.14–0.23) 0.04 (−0.03–0.10)
 Offspring 2 0.09 (0.02–0.16) 0.18 (0.14–0.23) 0.22 (0.11–0.31) 0.04 (−0.03–0.10) 0.18 (0.14–0.23) 0.14 (0.05–0.22)

Twin 1 is the parent of child 1. Twin 2 is the parent of child 2. Correlations are taken from constrained saturated models in which variances and means were constrained across twin order and zygosity and parent–child covariances were constrained across zygosity.