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Table 6 Results of eight LST analyses that included maternal depression stable component as predictor, and the fourth observation (at age 12) of children’s Anxiety (model 1), Withdrawal (model 2),Somatization (model 3), Social Problems (model 4), Thought Problems (model 5), Attention Problems (model 6), Rule Breaking Behaviors (model 7), Aggressive Behaviors (model 8) as criteria

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

Model

Model fit

Coefficients

Comparison

LST model

Criterion

χ2 (23)

p

RMSEA

CFI

TLI

SRMR

SSCMD

SSCA

Δ χ2 (1)

p

1

ANX

22.22

.51

.00

1.00

1.00

.01

.17**

.81**

8.51

.00

2

WITH

24.74

.36

.02

1.00

1.00

.01

.76**

.24**

58.91

.00

3

SOM

23.58

.43

.01

1.00

1.00

.01

.16**

.79**

12.52

.00

4

SOC_PR

24.04

.40

.02

1.00

1.00

.01

.19**

.76**

13.13

.00

5

TH_PR

26.15

.29

.03

1.00

1.00

.01

.08

.87**

.54

.47

6

ATT

20.28

.63

.00

1.00

1.00

.01

.13**

.83**

11.71

.00

7

RU_BR

32.94

.08

.05

.99

.99

.01

.16*

.81**

8.97

.00

8

AGGR

29.37

.17

.04

.99

.99

.01

.13*

.84**

8.08

.00

  1. The third observation (at age 8 of the children) of the latter scales was also included as covariates
  2. ANX anxiety and depression, WITH withdrawal and depression, SOM somatization, INT internalizing disorders, SOC_PROB social problems, TH_PROB thought problems, ATT attention problems, RULE_BR rule breaking behaviors, AGGR aggressive behaviors, 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 (1 df) between the model investigated and the same model with the structural coefficient formaternal depression fixed to 0 (every Δ χ2 are significant and remain significant also after Benjamini–Hochberg correction)
  3. **The structural coefficient is significant at .01 alpha level (two tailed) and remains significant also after Benjamini–Hochberg correction
  4. *The structural coefficient is significant at .05 alpha level (two tailed) and remains significant also after Benjamini–Hochberg correction