Table 4.

Separate Models for Boys and Girls: Regression Analyses Testing Maternal Sensitivity and Child School Readiness in Early Childhood as Moderators of the Relation between Early Childhood History of Anxious Solitude and Friendship Quality

	Structured Interaction with Friend at 4.5 years (ob)
	Friendship Quality
	B	z	R2
	Boys
			0.23
Primary predictors
Child anxious solitude 2–4.5 yrs (AS) (cg)	−0.10	−2.02*
Maternal sensitivity 2–4.5 yrs (MS) (ob)	−0.05	−1.02
Child school readiness 3 yrs (SR) (ob)	0.11	2.41*
AS × MS	0.14	2.76**
AS × SR	−0.18	−3.60***
MS × SR	−0.02	−0.51
AS × MS × SR	0.02	0.35
Control variables
Child ethnicity (1= white, −1=other)	0.06	1.27
Family income-to-needs ratio 2–4.5 yrs (m)	0.06	1.13
Childcare provider quality 2–4.5 yrs (ob)	0.04	0.83
Child aggression 2–4.5 yrs (cg)	0.04	0.76
Child attention problems 2–4 yrs (m)	−0.09	−1.77†
		Girls
			0.13
Primary predictors
Child anxious solitude 2–4.5 yrs (AS) (cg)	−0.07	−1.33
Maternal sensitivity 2–4.5 yrs (MS) (ob)	0.13	2.64**
School readiness 3 yrs (SR) (ob)	0.03	0.70
AS × MS	−0.04	−0.81
AS × SR	−0.03	−0.60
MS × SR	0.00	0.04
AS × MS × SR	0.01	0.20
Control variables
Child ethnicity (1= white, −1=other)	0.09	1.91†
Family income-to-needs ratio 2–4.5 yrs (m)	0.11	2.18*
Childcare provider quality 2–4.5 yrs (ob)	0.03	0.68
Child aggression 2–4.5 yrs (cg)	0.05	0.96
Child attention problems 2–4 yrs (m)	0.06	1.23

Note. N = 1364 (659 girls). Informant: (cg) caregiver, (ob) observer, (t) teacher, (m) mother.

^†p < .10,

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001.

Site was controlled in all analyses but because this variable consisted of 9 dummy-codes it is not shown to reduce clutter.