Table 3.

Bivariate correlations between parenting scores and child’s language development scores.

	BSID-III Scores
	Receptive Language	Expressive Language	Total Language
Mother’s
Affection	0.11	0.01	0.04
Responsiveness	0.22 *	0.28 *	0.28 **
Encouragement	0.26 *	0.19	0.23 *
Teaching	0.30 **	0.35 **	0.38 ***
Father’s
Affection	0.10	0.12	0.11
Responsiveness	0.16	0.13	0.17
Encouragement	0.35 **	0.11	0.23
Teaching	0.25 *	0.38 ***	0.38 ***

Note: * < 0.05, ** < 0.01,*** < 0.001.