Psychological, endocrine and polygenic predictors of emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal birth cohort

Figures & data

Figure 1. Overview of the included POSEIDON study waves: the flow diagram indicates the number of subjects participating in the POSEIDON study at the T1, T4, T5a and T5b time points, along with the number of samples that were included in the statistical analysis.

Table 1. Descriptive statistics.

	Children				Mothers
	N	M	SD	range	n	M	SD	range
Age T5a	264	7.75	0.71	7–9	247	40.73	4.49	27–52
Age T5b	172	8.02	0.76	7–10	160	40.94	4.62	25–52
Emotional well-being pre	263	4.11	0.57	1.7–5	241	3.74	0.60	1.1–4.9
Emotional well-being T5a	263	3.61	0.71	1.2–5	241	3.26	0.74	1–4.9
Emotional well-being T5b	169	3.72	0.65	2–5	160	3.31	0.67	1.3–4.9
Cortisol morning urine*	226	−0.46	0.38	−1.62 to 0.55
AUCi	205	2.61	9.43	−24.32 to 26.85
PSS T1					210	20.2	8.2	2–49
PSS T4					241	23.41	7.69	8–46

* log10-transformed.

Figure 2. Mean levels and range of emotional well-being (CRISIS score) of the children at all three assessed time points. Significant differences in post hoc tests ****p < .001; *p < .05.

Figure 3. Mean levels and range of emotional well-being (CRISIS score) of the mothers at all three assessed time points. Significant differences in post hoc tests ****p < .001; ns = not significant.

Table 2. Parameter estimation to predict change in the child’s emotional well-being.

	B	SE B	t	p
Constant	−0.437	0.484	−0.904	.367
PSS T1	−0.018	0.005	−3.511	<.001
Age child	0.042	0.056	0.752	.453
Sex child	−0.005	0.082	−0.057	.955