Rumination Mediates the Relationship between Infant Temperament and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for overall negative emotionality, rumination, and depressive symptoms, by gender.

	Girls		Boys		Comparison
Variable	M	SD	M	SD	t	𝑃
NE (infancy)	2.94	.58	2.84	.56	1.46	.146
Rumination (13)	2.02	.55	1.77	.53	3.91	.000
Depression (13)	4.89	5.21	3.79	4.18	2.01	.046
Depression (15)	5.74	5.82	3.84	4.95	3.03	.003