Social communication and emotion difficulties and second to fourth digit ratio in a large community-based sample

Table 4 Linear regression of children’s emotion recognition (emotional triangles) scores: both genders together and stratified by gender

	Minimally adjusted model B (95 % CI)		Fully adjusted model B (95 % CI)		R²(adjusted model)
	2D:4D right	2D:4D left	2D:4D right	2D:4D left	R²(adjusted model)
Angry	0.010 (−0.01, 0.03)	0.001 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.010 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.002 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.01
Happy	0.019 (0.00, 0.04)^ns	0.014 (−0.00, 0.03)	0.019 (0.0, 0.04)^ns	0.015 (−0.00, 0.03)	0.01
Sad	0.003 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.002 (−0.02, 0.01)	0.002 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.003 (−0.02, 0.01)	0.01
Scared	0.007 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.007 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.007 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.007 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.03
Female
Angry	0.007 (−0.01, 0.03)	0.005 (−0.02, 0.03)	0.006 (−0.02, 0.03)	−0.001 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.01
Happy	0.021 (−0.00, 0.04)	0.015 (−0.01, 0.04)	0.020 (0.00, 0.04)	0.015 (−0.01, 0.04)	0.01
Sad	0.004 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.001 (−0.00, 0.00)	0.003 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.001 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.01
Scared	−0.001 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.014 (−0.01, 0.04)	−0.002 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.000 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.02
Male
Angry	0.007 (−0.01, 0.03)	−0.003 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.006 (−0.02, 0.03)	0.005 (−0.01, 0.02)	0.01
Happy	0.021 (−0.00, 0.04)	0.013 (−0.01, 0.04)	0.020 (0.00, 0.04)	0.014 (−0.01, 0.04)	0.01
Sad	0.004 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.003 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.003 (−0.01, 0.02)	−0.004 (−0.02, 0.01)	0.01
Scared	−0.001 (−0.02, 0.02)	−0.001 (−0.02, 0.02)	−0.002 (−0.02, 0.02)	0.015 (−0.01, 0.04)	0.01

ns not significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons using the Bonferroni-Holm method
^aMinimally adjusted model: adjusted for child age, child gender, and tester
^bFully adjusted model: adjusted for child age, tester, maternal education, ethnic background and parity
***p ≤ 0.001

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