Table 3.
Partial Pearson correlationsa for child temperament, receptive language composite score, and caregiver linguistic input for the entire sample.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 1 CBQ-SF: Effortful Control | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2 CBQ-SF: Negative Affectivity | −.292* | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 3 CBQ-SF: Surgency-Extraversion | −.329* | −.108 | - | - | - | - | |
| 4 Receptive Language Composite Score | .407* | −.155 | −.154 | - | - | - | |
| 5 Caregiver Syntactic Complexity: MLU | .348* | −.127 | −.231 | .628** | - | - | |
| 6 Caregiver Lexical Diversity: NDW | .036 | .035 | −.134 | .347* | .538** | - | |
Note: CBQ-SF = Child Behavior Questionnaire Short Form, MLU= mean length of utterance, NDW= number of different words
a
Control variable: caregiver’s highest level of education; df = 56
*
p < .05,
**
p < .001