An association of adult personality with prenatal and early postnatal growth: the EPQ lie-scale

BMC Psychology

Table 2 MEN: Beta weights for childhood measures of weight, length and head circumference in regression models predicting adult lie-scale scores

Exposure variable	N	Unadjusted b	Adjusted^ab	Fully adjusted – including previous growth^bb	Fully adjusted - including IQ^cb	Fully adjusted - including adult size^db	Imputed values (40 datasets), adjusted^ab
Birth weight (kg)	578	-0. 64**	-0. 52	-	-0.47	-0.48	-0.57*
Weight 1 y (kg)	432	-0.52**	-0.43**	-0.37*	-0.41**	-0.47**	-0.46***
Weight 3 y (kg)	347	-0.26*	-0.22*	-0.007	-0.18	-0.30**	-0.24**
Weight 6 y (kg)	285	0.01	-0.02	0.12	-0.02	-0.06	-0.004
Birth length (cm)	573	-0.14*	-0.13*	-	-0.13*	-0.08	-0.13*
Length 1 y (cm)	438	-0.13*	-0.11*	-0.09	-0.11*	-0.03	-0.11*
Length 3 y (cm)	358	-0.11*	-0.11*	-0.09	-0.09	-0.06	-0.10*
Length 6 y (cm)	299	-0.05	-0.07	-0.03	-0.07	-0.04	-0.04
Head circumference birth (cm)	534	-0.30**	-0.25*	-	-0.22*	-0.29**	-0.25**
Head circumference 1 y (cm)	533	-0.19	-0.17	-0.12	-0.13	-0.23	-0.18
Head circumference 3 y (cm)	358	-0.26*	-0.26*	-0.10	-0.21	-0.41**	-0.20
Head circumference 6 y (cm)	298	-0.25	-0.19	0.02	-0.11	-0.26	-0.10

a: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, and age of EPQ measurement.
b: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and previous growth (i.e. birth weight and weight at 1 year in analyses of weight at 3 years).
c: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult intelligence.
d: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult size (i.e. adult weight in analyses of weight at 0, 1, 3 and 6 years etc.).
*P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001.

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