Do girls with depressive symptoms exhibit more physical aggression than boys? A cross sectional study in a national adolescent sample

Table 2 Association between depressive symptoms and aggressive behaviors

Outcome as a continuous variable	Predictive variables	β	95% CI	p
ADRS score	Physical aggressive behaviors	0.802	0.645; 0.958	0.000
	Other antisocial behaviors	−1.365	−1.669; −1.062	0.000
	Gender	−1.260	−1.409; −1.111	0.000
	Age	−0.172	−0.265; −0.080	0.000
	Alcohol consumption	0.064	−0.082; 0.211	0.391
	Cannabis use	0.333	0.162; 0.504	0.000
	Lifetime sexual abuse	1.474	1.262; 1.685	0.000
	Repeat school year	0.618	0.464; 0.771	0.000
	Single-parent family	0.141	0.031; 0.251	0.012
	Educational level of mother	−0.107	−0.105; 0.083	0.824

Outcome as a categorical variable	Predictive variables	OR	95% CI	p
Clinically significant levels of depressive symptoms	Physical aggressive behaviors	1.45	1.14; 1.84	0.002
	Other antisocial behaviors	0.36	0.24; 0.54	0.000
	Gender	0.38	0.30; 0.48	0.000
	Age	0.90	0.78; 1.04	0.169
	Alcohol consumption	0.96	0.73; 1.21	0.735
	Cannabis use	1.25	0.96; 1.61	0.095
	Lifetime sexual abuse	0.93	0.64; 1.35	0.694
	Repeat school year	1.38	1.08; 1.76	0.009
	Single-parent family	1.10	0.93; 1.30	0.256
	Educational level of mother	0.90	0.78; 1.04	0.170

β unstandardized regression coefficient, OR odds-ratio, CI 95% confidence interval
Gender (0 = girls, 1 = boys); alcohol consumption (1 = 10 + times in the past month), lifetime use of cannabis (1 = once or more in their lifetime, 0 = never), lifetime sexual abuse (1 = once or more in their lifetime, 0 = never), repeated school years (1 = once or more in their life time, 0 = never), maternal educational level (1 = baccalaureate or more, 0 = less than baccalaureate) and single-parent family (1 = yes, 0 = no)

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