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

Table 5 LST analyses including the stable component of maternal depressive symptoms as predictor, and the fourth observation (at age 12) of Internalizing symptoms (model 1), Externalizing symptoms (model 2) and Emotional Dysregulation (model 3) CBCL scales as criteria

Model		Model fit						Coefficients		Comparison
LST model	Criterion	χ² (23)	P	RMSEA	CFI	TLI	SRMR	SSCMD	SSCA	Δχ²(1)	p
1	INT	25.13	.34	.02	1.00	1.00	.01	.42**	.58**	32.59	.00
2	EXT	32.11	.10	.05	.99	.99	.01	.14*	.84**	7.27	.01
3	EM-DYS	24.44	.38	.02	1.00	1.00	.01	.16**	.82**	11.56	.00

For each model the corresponding CBCL scales as measured in the third observation (at age 8) were included as covariates (see Fig. 2)
INT CBCL internalizing scale, EXT CBCL externalizing scale, EM-DYS CBCL emotional dysregulation scale, SSCMD standardized structural coefficient of the stable component of maternal depression, SSCA standardized structural coefficient of the autoregression for each criterion, Δχ²(1) chi square of the difference with 1 degree of freedom between the model investigated and the same model with the structural coefficient of maternal depression fixed to 0

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