Depressed mood during the menopausal transition: is it reproductive aging or is it life?

Women's Midlife Health

Table 4 Final random effects model for depressed mood (diary) with age as predictor and significant psychosocial and hormonal covariates entered simultaneously (N = 234; Observations = 6766)

	Beta Coefficient	Standard Error/Standard Deviation	p value
Fixed effects
β₁ intercept	0.05	0.05	0.34
β₂ Age (−47.7) years	0.01	0.004	0.02
β₃ Menopausal Transition Stage
Early Stage	0.02	0.03	0.57
Late Stage	−0.01	0.04	0.77
Early PM	−0.10	0.05	0.03
Β₄ Perceived Stress	0.16	0.008	<.001
Β₅ History sexual abuse	0.18	0.06	0.002
Β₆ Amount exercise	- < 0.001	0.0002	0.004
Β₇ Problem getting to sleep	0.19	0.01	<.001
Β₈ Early Awakening	0.05	0.01	<.001
Β₉ Awakening at night	0.02	0.01	0.09
Β₁₀ If partnered	−0.11	0.03	0.001
Random effects
b₁ Intercept σ₁		0.39
b₂ Age (−47.7) years σ₂		0.02
b_ε residual σ_ε		0.57

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