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Table 5 Logistic regression analyses of children’s 2D:4D ratios (bottom 10 %): comparison of children scoring high and low on emotion recognition (DANVA) and social communication (SCDC)

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

 

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

2D:4D cut-off

SCDC (at 13)

DANVA (happy faces)

DANVA (sad faces)

DANVA (angry faces)

DANVA (fearful faces)

Bottom 10 % RH 2D:4D

1.65 (1.12–2.43)**

1.23 (0.93–1.61)

1.33 (0.98–1.82)****

1.19 (0.85–1.64)

1.22 (0.89–1.67)

Males

1.86 (1.18–2.93)**

1.32 (0.93–1.89)

1.49 (1.09–2.17)*

1.39 (0.94–2.04)****

1.42 (0.97–2.13)****

Females

1.32 (0.62–2.81)

0.91 (0.55–1.43)

1.02 (0.60–1.72)

0.62 (0.31–1.23)

0.90 (0.53–1.54)

Bottom 10 % LH 2D:4D

1.18 (0.76–1.83)

1.03 (0.76–1.39)

0.84 (0.59–1.18)

1.01 (0.72–1.43)

0.84 (0.60–1.19)

Males

1.28 (0.77–2.13)

0.95 (0.65–1.39)

0.75 (0.57–1.35)

1.06 (0.70–1.61)

0.94 (0.61–1.45)

Females

0.99 (0.42–2.31)

1.00 (0.60–1.64)

0.69 (0.38–1.27)

0.71 (0.36–1.39)

0.66 (0.37–1.20)

 

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

OR (95 % CI)a

 

DANVA (low intensity faces)

DANVA (high intensity faces)

DANVA (misattributed as happy)

DANVA (misattributed as sad)

DANVA (misattributed as angry)

Bottom 10 % RH 2D:4D

1.35 (1.01–1.82)*

1.32 (0.98–1.79)****

0.83 (0.56–1.22)

1.19 (0.85–1.67)

1.64 (1.16–2.33)**

Males

1.61 (1.14–2.33)**

1.52 (1.05–2.17)*

0.79 (0.49–1.28)

1.45 (0.98–2.13)****

2.04 (1.32–3.13)**

Females

0.84 (0.49–1.43)

0.94 (0.56–1.59)

0.81 (0.43–1.54)

0.50 (0.23–1.10)****

1.22 (0.68–2.17)

Bottom 10 % LH 2D:4D

1.05 (0.77–1.43)

0.83 (0.60–1.16)

0.67 (0.44–1.02)

0.94 (0.66–1.35)

0.96 (0.64–1.04)

Males

1.12 (0.77–1.64)

0.89 (0.59–1.35)

0.63 (0.37–1.06)

1.12 (0.75–1.69)

0.96 (0.56–1.64)

Females

0.80 (0.46-1.39)

0.65 (0.35–1.16)

0.68 (0.34–1.37)

0.36 (0.15–0.91)

0.96 (0.50–1.85)

  1. Higher scores on SCDC represent more social communication problems. Higher scores in DANVA means more mistakes are made when identifying emotions/more misattributionss
  2. *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001; ****p < 0.1