The stable component of maternal depressive symptoms predicts offspring emotional and behavioral symptoms: a 9-years longitudinal study

Table 4 Results of the latent state-trait (LST) analysis on maternal depression as measured in three occasions of measurement, that are at age 2, 5, 8 of the children)

LST models	Model fit			Latent variances					LST coefficients
LST models	χ²	df	p	Trait	Occasion	Method	Error	Total	Con	OccSpe	MetSpe	Error	Rel
No method no occasion factors (NMNO)	22.76	14	.06	1.32	–	–	.07	1.39	.95	–	–	.05	.95
No method factor (NM)	12.18	13	.51	1.32	.03	–	.06	1.41	.94	.02	–	.04	.96
With method factor (M-1)	12.00	12	.45	1.31	.03	.003	.06	1.41	.94	.02	.002	.04	.96

N = 160
Con consistency, OccSpe occasion specificity, MetSpe method specificity, Rel reliability corrected for the total test

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