Maternal stress and depressive symptoms and adolescents’ body mass index: a prospective study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Linear regressions of maternal stress/depressive symptoms at T1 on adolescent zBMI at T2

	Analyses adjusted for baseline zBMI ^a				Analyses adjusted for covariates ^b
	B	SE B	β	P value	B	SE B	β	P value
Maternal general stress	.08	.03	.14	.01*	.10	.03	.20	.002**
Maternal depressive symptoms	−.01	.02	−.03	.49	−.02	.02	−.05	.44
Maternal financial stress	−.05	.08	−.03	.50	−.07	.08	−.04	.41
Maternal stress at home	−.07	.09	−.04	.43	−.09	.09	−.06	.30
Maternal stress at work	−.00	.08	−.00	.97	.004	.08	.003	.95
Adj R ²	.35				.31

** significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). * significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). ^a Adjusted for: adolescents’ zBMI at baseline ^b Adjusted for covariates:
adolescents’ zBMI at baseline, educational level, gender; maternal BMI, educational level of mothers, maternal marital status (single household status), the quality of parent/child relationship as rated by parents, adolescent stress, and adolescent depressive symptoms

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