Table 3.
Relations of early educators’ post-trauma growth to children’s executive function.
| BRIEF-P general EF | BRIEF-P inhibitory self control | BRIEF-P flexibility | BRIEF-P emergent metacognition | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Est | SE | Bootstrapped CI | Est | SE | Bootstrapped CI | Est | SE | Bootstrapped CI | Est | SE | Bootstrapped CI | |||||
| Fixed effects | ||||||||||||||||
| Intercept | 63.18 | 8.38 | 44.42 | 76.45 | 59.75 | 7.61 | 42.49 | 72.63 | 59.71 | 8.61 | 42.44 | 76.97 | 62.21 | 9.02 | 41.34 | 77.69 |
| Intervention group | 3.32 | 2.08 | −0.77 | 7.31 | 3.02 | 2.08 | −0.98 | 7.58 | 1.90 | 2.34 | −2.84 | 6.63 | 5.08 | 2.15 | 0.82 | 9.26 |
| Child age | −0.11 | 1.30 | −2.04 | 3.18 | −0.18 | 1.19 | −1.44 | 3.23 | −0.12 | 1.19 | −2.47 | 2.23 | 0.08 | 1.43 | −2.62 | 2.99 |
| Child male gender | 5.00** | 1.74 | 1.79 | 8.87 | 4.26* | 1.70 | 0.82 | 7.72 | 4.71** | 1.64 | 1.49 | 7.92 | 5.51** | 1.82 | 2.57 | 9.78 |
| Parent education | −0.13 | 0.27 | −0.72 | 0.36 | −0.03 | 0.24 | −0.54 | 0.37 | 0.22 | 0.22 | −0.22 | 0.66 | −0.25 | 0.30 | −0.89 | 0.34 |
| ECE yrs. experience | 0.04 | 0.16 | −0.28 | 0.36 | 0.08 | 0.16 | −0.22 | 0.39 | −0.12 | 0.18 | −0.48 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.17 | −0.17 | 0.52 |
| ECE income | −0.59 | 0.34 | −1.33 | −0.03 | −0.65 | 0.33 | −1.43 | −0.15 | −0.34 | 0.38 | −1.13 | 0.45 | −0.62 | 0.36 | −1.35 | 0.02 |
| ECE workplace stressors | −0.20 | 0.08 | −0.33 | −0.04 | −0.14 | 0.08 | −0.28 | 0.02 | −0.26* | 0.11 | −0.48 | −0.05 | −0.20 | 0.09 | −0.36 | 0.01 |
| ECE ACE score | 1.27 | 0.81 | −0.30 | 2.97 | 1.13 | 0.69 | −0.32 | 2.57 | 0.70 | 0.81 | −0.92 | 2.32 | 1.00 | 0.87 | −0.66 | 2.86 |
| ECE post-traumatic growth | −4.22* | 1.30 | −6.50 | −1.23 | −4.0* | 1.09 | −5.94 | −1.69 | −2.17 | 1.73 | −5.70 | 1.35 | −4.26* | 1.90 | −8.28 | −1.01 |
| Random effects | ||||||||||||||||
| Residual | 96.04 | 12.35 | 83.67 | 12.50 | 81.35 | 9.99 | 106.90 | 14.97 | ||||||||
| Intercept (ECE) | 7.76 | 13.55 | 10.97 | 11.27 | 1.07 | 12.51 | 8.18 | 9.86 | ||||||||
| −2 Restricted log likelihood | 1012.43 | 998.65 | 994.52 | 1025.65 | ||||||||||||
| AIC | 1016.53 | 1002.65 | 998.52 | 1029.65 | ||||||||||||
| Pseudo-R2 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.14 | ||||||||||||
Bolded confidence intervals represent significant effects in bootstrapped analyses; **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 in non-bootstrapped models. N = 48 teachers, 138 children. BRIEF-P, Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool; Yrs, Years; ECE, Early childhood educator; AIC, Akaike’s Information Criterion; Est, Estimate. Pseudo R2 is marginal and reflects the variance attributable to the fixed effects.