An association of adult personality with prenatal and early postnatal growth: the EPQ lie-scale

BMC Psychology

Table 3 WOMEN: Beta weights for childhood measures of weight, length and head circumference in regression models predicting adult lie-scale scores

Exposure variable	N	Unadjusted b	Adjusted^ab	Fully adjusted – including previous growth^bb	Fully adjusted - including IQ^cb	Fully adjusted - including adult size^db	Imputed values (40 datasets), adjusted^ab
Birth weight (kg)	571	-0.19	-0.31	-	-0.24	-0.42	-0. 08
Weight 1 y (kg)	428	0.08	0.08	0.17	0.15	0.04	0.03
Weight 3 y (kg)	337	0.001	-0.03	0.003	0.02	-0.08	-0.02
Weight 6 y (kg)	292	0.03	0.02	0.19	0.05	0.04	0.07
Birth length (cm)	569	0.02	-0.03	-	-0.02	0.005	0.04
Length 1 y (cm)	425	-0.01	-0.009	-0.0007	0.007	0.03	-0.008
Length 3 y (cm)	342	-0.01	-0.03	-0.04	-0.02	-0.03	-0.02
Length 6 y (cm)	300	-0.01	-0.02	0.03	0.002	-0.01	-0.003
Head circumference birth (cm)	523	0.05	0.07	-	0.09	0.09	0.02
Head circumference 1 y (cm)	427	-0.02	-0.005	0.09	0.05	0.07	0.03
Head circumference 3 y (cm)	340	-0.17	-0.11	0.07	-0.05	-0.22	-0.07
Head circumference 6 y (cm)	299	-0.004	0.04	0.21	0.09	0.06	0.06

a: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, and age of EPQ measurement.
b: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and previous growth (i.e. birth weight and weight at 1 year in analyses of weight at 3 years).
c: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult intelligence.
d: Single-mother status, parity, mother’s age, father’s age, parental social status, age of EPQ measurement, and adult size (i.e. adult weight in analyses of weight at 0, 1, 3 and 6 years etc.).
*P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001.

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