Trajectories of stressful life events and long-term changes in mental health outcomes, moderated by family functioning? the TRAILS study

Table 3 Associations between membership of SLE trajectory with changes in mental health^a at age 23, and the moderating effect of Family Functioning (expected means, estimates and confidence intervals across trajectories)

Descriptives per trajectory	Low SLE trajectory^b		Middle SLE trajectory^b		High SLE trajectory^b		p- value^f
Descriptives per trajectory	Mean	95%CI	Mean	95%CI	Mean	95%CI	p- value^f
Mental health_T1^a	0.18	[0.15; 0.20]	0.31	[0.30; 0.32]	0.67	[0.64; 0.70]	0.000
Mental health_T5/T6^a	0.10	[0.83; 0.12]	0.25	[0.24; 0.26]	0.65	[0.61; 0.68]	0.000
Family Functioning	1.65	[1.54; 1.77]	1.67	[1.65; 1.69]	1.98	[1.94; 2.02]	0.000
Mental health_change^acd	− 0.07	[− 0.11; − 0,04]	− 0.06	[− 0.07; − 0.05]	− 0.01	[− 0.09; 0.08]	0.334
Moderator model^cde	B	95%CI	B	95%CI	B	95%CI	p- value^f
Intercept	− 0.09	[− 0.15; − 0.04]	− 0.06	[− 0.07; − 0.04]	− 0.03	[− 0.13; 0.06]	0.324
Family Functioning	− 0.12	[− 0.32; 0.09]	0.04	[− 0.02; 0.10]	0.05	[− 0.23; 0.31]	0.383

Estimates (B) with Standard Errors (SE)
^aMental health is measured using standardized YSR/ASR scores
^bMore information on the trajectories can be found in Table 2 and Fig. 1
^cEstimated means of the difference between mental health T5/T6 and mental health T1
^dControlled for the variables sex, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity
^eThis model demonstrates coefficients for the association of Family Functioning with changes in mental health across trajectories of SLEs
^fTest of differences of means across trajectory classes

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