Table 5.

Correlations between infants’ DMQ18 scale scores and BSID-III scaled scores.

Measure	Cognitive	Receptive Language	Expressive Language	Fine Motor	Gross Motor
Cognitive/object persistence	0.036	−0.091	0.030	−0.009	0.045
Social persistence with adults	0.076	−0.065	0.002	0.005	−0.007
Social persistence with children	0.153 *	0.021	−0.030	0.017	0.003
Gross motor persistence	0.049	0.045	0.115	0.085	0.188 *
Mastery pleasure	0.115	−0.060	0.043	0.008	0.075
Negative reactions to challenge—frustration/anger	−0.002	−0.105	−0.088	−0.151 *	−0.113
General competence	0.126	0.052	0.104	0.232 **	0.201 **

** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed); * correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed).