In all, 710 Finnish families participated in the longitudinal study
conducted during pregnancy, at the child's
ages of two and twelve months and in
middle childhood.
Logistic regression analyses were
conducted to investigate the mediation hypotheses, using an established 3 - step procedure.48 First, we investigated whether there was a significant bivariate association between a high level of maladaptive parenting (operationally defined as ≥ 3 maladaptive parenting behaviors) or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence (by a mean
age of 14 years) and risk for suicide attempts
during late adolescence or early adulthood (reported at a mean
age of 22 years) and whether the magnitude of this association was reduced when interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence (reported at a mean
age of 16 years) were controlled statistically.