Table 6.

Correlations between toddlers’ DMQ18 scaled scores and BSID-III scaled scores.

Measures	Cognitive	Receptive Language	Expressive Language	Fine Motor	Gross Motor
Cognitive/object persistence	0.419 **	0.529 **	0.330 *	0.222	0.339 *
Social persistence with adults	0.177	0.250	0.261	0.074	0.177
Social persistence with children	0.204	0.211	0.080	0.253	0.121
Gross motor persistence	0.342 *	0.412 **	0.201	0.242	0.228
Mastery pleasure	0.365 **	0.236	0.323 *	0.139	0.098
Negative reaction—frustration/anger	0.204	0.113	0.035	−0.051	0.179
Negative reaction—sadness/shame	0.377 *	0.363 *	0.252	0.265	0.167
General competence	0.420 **	0.469 **	0.330 *	0.241	0.277

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