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Table 3 Means, standard deviations, and correlations among all variables

From: Mothers’ and fathers’ stress and severity of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: actor-partner effects with parental negative emotions as a moderator

Variable

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

(1) Household income

          

(2) Additional help from domestic helpers (0 = no; 1 = yes)

.59***

         

(3) Child’s age at Time 2 (months)

.07

.07

        

(4) Mothers’ COVID-19-related parental stress

− .07

− .10

− .04

       

(5) Fathers’ COVID-19-related parental stress

− .09

.01

− .07

.40***

      

(6) Mothers’ negative emotions during COVID-19

.14*

.02

.04

.23***

.21**

     

(7) Fathers’ negative emotions during COVID-19

.13

.03

.07

.23***

.25***

.41***

    

(8) Mothers’ severity of depressive symptoms

− .13

− .15*

− .12

.23***

.14*

.37***

.19**

   

(9) Fathers’ severity of depressive symptoms

− .10

− .03

− .06

.22***

.36***

.18**

.26***

.42***

  

(10) Pre-existing severity of mothers’ depressive symptoms

− .03

.08

.14*

.22***

.17*

.30***

.15*

.67***

.31***

 

(11) Pre-existing severity of fathers’ depressive symptoms

− .03

.03

.00

.20**

.28***

.15*

.14*

.24***

.42***

.32***

M

6.17

.40

70.48

1.24

1.00

3.18

3.12

3.39

3.51

3.52

3.32

SD

3.27

.49

3.62

1.06

1.12

.82

.83

4.24

3.94

3.99

3.57

  1. *p = / < .05, **p = / < .01, ***p = / < .001. Monthly household income scale ranging from 0 to 12: 0 = less than HK$5000; 1 = HK$5001–10,000; 2 = HK$10,001–15,000; 3 = HK$15,001–20,000; 4 = HK$20,001–30,000; 5 = HK$30,001–40,000; 6 = HK$40,001–50,000; 7 = HK$50,001–60,000; 8 = HK$60,001–70,000; 9 = HK$70,001–80,000; 10 = HK$80,001–90,000; 11 = HK$90,001–100,000; 12 = over HK$100,001