Fig 1.
Hypothesized pathways between psychosocial stressors and responses to stress.
Gray boxes indicate psychosocial stressor measures and white boxes indicate responses to psychosocial stress.
Table 1.
Distribution of demographic characteristics and psychosocial stress measures and responses to stress in the Chemicals in Our Bodies cohort (N = 510).
Table 2.
Correlation coefficients between continuous psychosocial stress measures (stressful life events, neighborhood quality, discrimination, food insecurity, caregiving, job strain, financial strain, unplanned pregnancy) and responses to stress (depression, perceived stress, community status).
Fig 2.
Full empirical model indicating the associations between psychosocial stressors and responses to stress.
Overall model had good fit: RMSEA = 0.04, SRMR = 0.01, CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.96. Model is adjusted for maternal age, maternal education, and maternal race/ethnicity. Solid black lines indicate statistically significant paths at p<0.05. Gray dashed lines indicate non-significant paths. Effect estimates correspond to path coefficients for the direct effect provided in Table 3. Gray boxes indicate psychosocial stress measures and white boxes indicate responses to psychosocial stress. Higher scores for Perceived Stress, Depression, and Neighborhood Quality indicate higher stressor and response levels. Lower scores for Community Status indicate higher stress response levels.
Table 3.
Regression coefficients and 95% confidence intervals for direct, indirect, and total effects between psychosocial stress measures in the Chemicals in Our Bodies-2 cohort (N = 510).
Model has good fit (RMSEA = 0.04, SRMR = 0.01, CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.96).