Depressive Symptoms and Deliberate Self-Harm in a Community Sample of Adolescents: A Prospective Study

Table 2

Prospective hierarchical regressions, predicting T2 self-harm from T1 depressive symptoms and T2 depressive symptoms from T1 self-harm.

	Variables	𝑅^2 Δ	B	SE B	β	F step
Predicting self-harm at T2 from depressive symptoms at T1 among the girls
Step 1	T1 self-harm	.35	.61	.04	.60	247.1***
Step 2	Depressive symptoms at T1	.01				6.4*
	T1 self-harm		.55	.05	.53***
	T1 depressive symptoms		.11	.04	.11*
Predicting depressive symptoms at T2 from self-harm at T1 among the girls
Step 1	T1 depressive symptoms	.54	.83	.04	.73	571.4***
Step 2	Self-harm at T1	.01				6.5*
	T1 depressive symptom		.77	.04	.68***
	T1 self-harm		.12	.05	.10*
Predicting self-harm at T2 from depressive symptoms at T1 among the boys
Step 1	T1 self-harm	.17	.42	.04	.41	88.2***
Step 2	Depressive symptoms at T1	.03				52.8***
	T1 self-harm		.35	.05	.35***
	T1 depressive symptoms		.17	.05	.18***
Predicting depressive symptoms at T2 from self-harm at T1 among the boys
Step 1	T1 depressive symptoms	.43	.79	.04	.65***	356.3***
Step 2	Self-harm at T1	.00				2.8
	T1 depressive symptoms		.76	.05	.63***
	T1 self-harm		.08	.05	.06

* 𝑃<.05, **𝑃<.01, ***𝑃<.001.