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Table 5 Interaction between parental behavior, region of birth and child mental health

From: Differential impact of parental region of birth on negative parenting behavior and its effects on child mental health: Results from a large sample of 6 to 11 year old school children in France

 

Child mental health status

 

Parent-reported

Child self-reported

 

SDQ total difficulties

SDQ Conduct Disorder

internalizing disorders

Internalizing disorder

Model 1

Model 2

 

AOR

P > t

AOR

P > t

AOR

P > t

AOR

P > t

AOR

P > t

Boy/girl

3.08

<0.001

1.98

0.001

1.03

0.880

0.82

0.197

0.81

0.179

Child age > =9 years/less than 9 years

1.01

0.971

1.01

0.954

0.97

0.874

0.73

0.053

0.75

0.073

Number of children in household

single/2 or 3

1.57

0.130

1.08

0.782

0.61

0.125

1.39

0.097

1.43

0.075

more than 3/2 or 3

0.75

0.520

0.74

0.409

1.21

0.558

0.65

0.143

0.73

0.264

Income

medium/low

1.00

0.995

0.72

0.236

1.35

0.278

0.95

0.821

0.97

0.892

high/low

1.12

0.773

0.72

0.332

1.10

0.790

0.95

0.832

0.96

0.882

Education level

medium/low

1.12

0.723

0.91

0.741

0.86

0.588

0.78

0.202

0.78

0.212

high/low

0.64

0.199

1.13

0.667

0.72

0.250

0.48

0.001

0.47

0.001

At least one parent unemployed yes/no

1.22

0.554

1.01

0.979

1.31

0.359

1.08

0.741

1.09

0.710

Mother psychological distress yes/no

4.61

<0.001

2.93

<0.001

3.99

<0.001

1.16

0.483

1.13

0.569

Mother’s region of birth

CA/Africa/Western

1.01

0.985

1.19

0.685

1.19

0.748

0.84

0.658

1.41

0.393

Maghreb/Western

1.55

0.337

1.74

0.153

0.62

0.327

0.58

0.146

0.92

0.813

Homogeneity of couple

No/yes

0.45

0.127

0.64

0.256

1.35

0.367

1.12

0.657

1.10

0.724

Missing/yes

2.01

0.024

1.66

0.077

1.10

0.769

0.96

0.854

0.96

0.877

Caring

1.42

0.251

2.36

0.001

0.98

0.954

0.96

0.871

0.94

0.801

Autonomy-promoting

0.81

0.561

1.83

0.024

0.80

0.496

0.95

0.820

1.06

0.793

Punitive behavior

3.73

<0.001

4.96

<0.001

0.94

0.855

1.43

0.084

1.74

0.012

“Region of birth x autonomy-promoting” interactions

Caribean/Africa

      

1.20

0.813

  

Maghreb

      

4.16

0.054

  

“Region of birth x punitive” interactions

Caribean/Africa

    

1.74

0.501

  

0.19

0.034

Maghreb

    

5.06

0.056

  

0.33

0.206

Living in a DSA yes/no

1.38

0.400

0.71

0.357

1.39

0.326

1.95

0.007

2.04

0.004

Rural environment yes/no

1.46

0.231

0.77

0.389

1.15

0.614

0.68

0.093

0.68

0.085

  1. “living apart from father” (single-parent home) covariate was removed because it was correlated to “homogeneity of the couple” graded as yes, no or unknown. Bold means significant 0.05 and above
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