Table 2 Polynomial regression and response surface analysis coefficients for parent-child discrepancies in authoritarian filial piety and children’s depressive symptoms
Dependent variables | Sons’ depressive symptoms | Daughters’ depressive symptoms |
Father−son dyads | Mother−son dyads | Father−daughter dyads | Mother−daughter dyads |
Polynomial Regression Coefficients | | | | |
Constant (b0) | 14.18 | 14.04 | 14.78 | 14.64 |
Parents’ AFP (b1) | 0.33 | −0.06 | 0.57 | 0.50 |
Children’s AFP (b2) | −0.65 | −0.46 | −1.52** | −1.48** |
Parents’ AFP squared (b3) | 0.21 | 0.27 | 0.07 | 0.29 |
Parents’ AFP × Children’s AFP (b4) | −0.28 | −0.00 | −0.51 | −0.38 |
Children’s AFP squared (b5) | 0.32 | 0.24 | 0.89*** | 0.86*** |
Response Surface Analysis Coefficients | | | | |
Slope for congruence line (a1) | −0.32 | −0.53 | −0.95 | −0.99 |
Curvature for congruence line (a2) | 0.25 | 0.51 | 0.45 | 0.77 |
Slope for incongruence line (a3) | 0.98 | 0.40 | 2.09** | 1.98** |
Curvature for incongruence line (a4) | 0.80* | 0.52 | 1.46*** | 1.52** |