Association between maternal exposure to cumulative childhood trauma and offspring childhood trauma and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents

Table 4 Regression analysis predicting offspring depressive symptoms in the overall sample, male and female adolescent subgroups

Variables	Unstandardized Coefficients		Standardized Coefficients	t	P
	B	Std. Error	Beta
Overall sample(n = 3672)
Maternal exposure to cumulative CT	0.193	0.198	0.013	0.974	0.330
Offspring EA	1.268	0.057	0.382	22.361	< 0.001
Offspring PA	0.051	0.074	0.011	0.686	0.493
Offspring SA	0.145	0.119	0.016	1.218	0.223
Offspring EN	0.660	0.042	0.280	15.817	< 0.001
Offspring PN	0.123	0.066	0.031	1.870	0.062
Males(n = 1807)
Maternal exposure to cumulative CT	0.231	0.266	0.017	0.870	0.384
Offspring EA	1.129	0.086	0.326	13.072	< 0.001
Offspring PA	0.194	0.098	0.045	1.979	0.048
Offspring SA	0.070	0.140	0.010	0.498	0.618
Offspring EN	0.625	0.055	0.281	11.463	< 0.001
Offspring PN	0.183	0.084	0.051	2.191	0.029
Females(n = 1865)
Maternal exposure to cumulative CT	0.146	0.291	0.009	0.502	0.616
Offspring EA	1.250	0.079	0.387	15.750	< 0.001
Offspring PA	− 0.007	0.113	− 0.001	− 0.066	0.947
Offspring SA	0.509	0.219	0.043	2.322	0.020
Offspring EN	0.696	0.064	0.286	10.965	< 0.001
Offspring PN	0.106	0.103	0.024	1.023	0.306

CT: Childhood trauma, EA: Emotional abuse, PA: Physical abuse, SA: Sexual abuse, EN: Emotional neglect, PN: Physical neglect

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