Table 5.
Relations of early educators’ adverse experiences and post-traumatic growth to children’s EF after accounting for ECE emotion regulation and psychological distress.
| 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 | 64.96 | 8.92 | 45.34 | 79.46 | 61.04 | 8.07 | 43.45 | 74.60 | 61.87 | 8.36 | 44.55 | 77.17 | 63.82 | 9.56 | 41.90 | 8.22 |
| Intervention group | 3.52 | 2.04 | −0.56 | 7.57 | 3.29 | 2.03 | −0.61 | 7.56 | 2.09 | 1.87 | −1.62 | 5.53 | 5.24* | 2.15 | 0.94 | 9.38 |
| Child age | 0.39 | 1.40 | −1.74 | 3.73 | 0.67 | 1.25 | −1.07 | 4.00 | 0.45 | 1.28 | −1.63 | 3.61 | 0.27 | 1.55 | −2.89 | 3.46 |
| Child male gender | 5.07** | 1.76 | 1.89 | 8.94 | 4.35** | 1.70 | 0.84 | 7.85 | 4.77** | 1.64 | 1.41 | 7.79 | 5.58** | 1.85 | 2.51 | 9.86 |
| Parent education | −0.16 | 0.27 | −0.74 | 0.35 | −0.08 | 0.24 | −0.58 | 0.36 | 0.18 | 0.20 | −0.27 | 0.55 | −0.26 | 0.30 | −0.90 | 0.34 |
| ECE Yrs. experience | −0.09 | 0.18 | −0.44 | 0.26 | −0.05 | 0.17 | −0.40 | 0.28 | −0.27 | 0.15 | −0.56 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.19 | −0.30 | 0.46 |
| ECE income | −0.59 | 0.34 | −1.36 | −0.03 | −0.74 | 0.33 | −1.49 | −0.21 | −0.35 | 0.32 | −1.10 | 0.19 | −0.58 | 0.37 | −1.34 | 0.08 |
| ECE workplace stressors | −0.19 | 0.09 | −0.39 | −0.03 | −0.21 | 0.09 | −0.40 | −0.05 | −0.27 | 0.10 | −0.47 | −0.10 | −0.15 | 0.11 | −0.38 | 0.07 |
| ECE DERS | −0.09 | 0.06 | −0.20 | 0.03 | −0.08 | 0.05 | −0.18 | 0.04 | −0.10 | 0.06 | −0.21 | 0.02 | −0.08 | 0.07 | −0.21 | 0.06 |
| ECE psychological distress | 0.08 | 0.06 | −0.02 | 0.23 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.27 | 0.10 | 0.06 | −0.01 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 0.07 | −0.10 | 0.19 |
| ECE total ACEs | 1.15 | 0.84 | −0.44 | 2.95 | 0.64 | 0.69 | −0.82 | 2.05 | 0.50 | 0.75 | −0.84 | 2.05 | 1.09 | 0.90 | −0.55 | 3.16 |
| ECE post-traumatic growth | −3.63 | 1.53 | −6.44 | −0.20 | −2.72 | 1.30 | −4.82 | 0.29 | −1.43 | 1.39 | −4.10 | 1.52 | −4.14 | 1.71 | −7.04 | −0.25 |
| Random effects | ||||||||||||||||
| Residual | 95.63 | 13.59 | 80.78 | 11.95 | 85.25 | 13.76 | 105.47 | 16.33 | ||||||||
| Intercept (ECE) | 8.96 | 1.21 | 15.02 | 11.93 | 9.94 | 12.96 | 9.73 | 12.96 | ||||||||
| −2 Restricted log likelihood | 1017.87 | 1002.79 | 999.49 | 1031.48 | ||||||||||||
| AIC | 1021.87 | 1006.79 | 1003.49 | 1035.48 | ||||||||||||
| Pseudo-R2 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.17 | ||||||||||||
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; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; AIC, Akaike’s Information Criterion; Est, Estimate.