Student-teacher relationship trajectories and mental health problems in young children

BMC Psychology

Table 4 Regression coefficients describing association between SDQ total difficulties scores at age 6 (Parent- and Teacher-rated) and student-teacher relationship quality trajectories (Stable High versus Moderate/Declining), n = 460

	Parent-rated SDQ total score at age 6			Teacher-rated SDQ total score at age 6
	B	95% CI	p	B	95% CI	p
Model 1 (unadjusted)
Moderate/Declining	ref	-	-	-	-	-
Stable high	-4.38	−5.97 - −2.78	<.001	−11.15	−12.73 - −9.57	<.001
Model 2 (adjusted) ^a
Moderate/Declining	ref	-	-	-	-	-
Stable high	−3.69	−5.32 - −2.07	<.001	−10.15	−11.79 - −8.51	<.001
Model 3 (Model 2 + baseline SDQ) ^b
Moderate/Declining	ref	-	-	-	-	-
Stable high	−2.83	−4.11 - −1.54	<.001	−7.98	−9.69 - −6.28	<.001

^aAdjusted for: child age at preschool, child gender, Parent distress, Parental warmth, maternal and paternal education and employment, receiving welfare benefit, and single parent family status. ^bAdjusted for: child age at preschool, child gender, Parent distress, Parental warmth, maternal and paternal education and employment, receiving welfare benefit, and single parent family status, and the corresponding informant-specific SDQ Total difficulties score at age 4 (parent-rated and teacher-rated, respectively).
Note. The Moderate/Declining trajectory group was treated as the reference group in these analyses.
Note. See Additional file 1 for more detailed tables with the full set of coefficients for all variables included in the adjusted models (Models 2 and 3).

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