Depressive symptoms from kindergarten to early school age: longitudinal associations with social skills deficits and peer victimization

Table 1 Bivariate associations between main study variables (Pearson correlations)

	SOS	Dep T1	Dep T2	Vict T1	Vict T2	Age	Gender (girls = 1)
Other-oriented social skills (T1)	.09	-.25**	-.18**	-.46**	-.30**	.15**	.23**
Self-oriented social skills (T1)		-.48**	-.23**	-.18**	.01	.24**	.14**
Depressive symptoms (T1)			.35**	.29**	.12*	.01	-.05
Depressive symptoms (T2)				.15**	.30**	.01	-.13*
Victimization (T1)					.26**	.02	-.21**
Victimization (T2)						-.03	-.22**

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