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. 2023 Jun 24;13:10263. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-37448-8

Table 2.

Correlations between percentage of looking to the mother’s face and infant Negative Affect, Distress, and Falling Reactivity scale scores on the Infant Behavior Questionnaire – Revised, Very Short Form (IBQ-R VSF; Putnam et al., 2014) and Infant Behavior Questionnaire – Revised (IBQ-R; Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003) at each assessment stage.

Looking time to mother’s face
2 weeks 4 months 6 months 9 months
2 weeks Negative affect 0.156 − 0.039 0.197 − 0.099
Distress 0.175 − 0.129 0.087 − 0.01
Falling reactivity − 0.064 0.284* 0.06 0.058
4 months Negative affect 0.108 0.056 0.172 − 0.09
Distress 0.155 0.112 0.324* − 0.111
Falling Reactivity − 0.082 0.195 0.08 − 0.217
6 months Negative affect 0.194 0.016 0.105 − 0.108
Distress 0.218 − 0.016 0.078 − 0.053
Falling reactivity − 0.085 0.297* 0.168 − 0.205
9 months Negative affect 0.306 0.134 − 0.102 0.087
Distress 0.228 0.323* − 0.047 0.02
Falling reactivity − 0.199 0.298* 0.454** − 0.148

Significant correlations are in bold. **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, two-tailed p-values.