Table 10.

Relations of Youths’ Conflict Reactions to Youths’ Dispositional Characteristics

	Youths’ T4 Conflict Reactions
	Negative Verbal			Anger Affect			Humor Verbal			Positive Affect
Dispositional Variables	Total	Girls	Boys	Total	Girls	Boys	Total	Girls	Boys	Total	Girls	Boys
Negative emotionality
T2 mothers	0.07	0.13	−0.03	0.21^*	0.27^*	0.13	−0.14	−0.24⁺	−0.04	−0.18⁺	−0.30^*	−0.05
T2 teachers	0.19^*	0.17	0.25⁺	0.20^*	0.22	0.23	0.10	0.11	0.11	−0.06	−0.01	−0.05
T3 mothers	0.12	0.20	0.00	0.31^***	0.38^**	0.24⁺	−0.04	−0.08	0.01	0.02	−0.01	0.03
T3 teachers	0.07	0.09	0.08	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.05	0.14	−0.01	0.08	0.12	0.10
T4 mothers	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.26^**	0.31^*	0.21	−0.18^*	−0.24⁺	−0.11	−0.15⁺	−0.20	−0.08
T4 teachers	−0.01	0.01	0.00	0.10	0.13	0.09	−0.06	−0.17	0.06	−0.18⁺	−0.18	−0.13
T4 observed	0.09	0.13	0.04	0.25^**	0.31^*	0.19	−0.15	−0.32^*	0.02	−0.04	−0.13	0.06
Resiliency
T2 mothers	0.05	0.03	0.07	−0.07	−0.10	−0.03	0.20^*	0.32^*	0.10	0.33^***	0.43^***	0.23⁺
T2 teachers	−0.11	−0.18	−0.04	−0.12	−0.10	−0.16	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.12	0.03	0.22
T3 mothers	−0.07	−0.01	−0.16	−0.19^*	−0.13	−0.27^*	0.12	0.14	0.11	0.23^*	0.25⁺	0.22
T3 teachers	0.06	−0.02	0.12	0.10	0.03	0.17	0.03	−*0.31^	*0.31^	0.12	−0.05	0.25⁺
T4 mothers	−0.07	0.02	−0.22⁺	−0.18^*	−0.14	−0.24⁺	0.18^*	0.29^*	0.06	0.32^***	0.36^**	0.25^*
T4 teachers	0.06	0.03	0.08	−0.05	0.00	−0.11	0.14	0.23⁺	0.05	0.16⁺	0.12	0.19
Control/regulation
T2 mothers	−0.16⁺	−0.24⁺	−0.08	−0.33^***	−0.30^*	−0.39^**	0.12	0.17	0.08	0.16⁺	0.26^*	−0.01
T2 teachers	−0.22^*	−*0.43^**	−*0.06*	−0.33^***	−0.43^***	−0.31^*	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.14	0.13	0.06
T3 mothers	−0.21^*	−0.37^**	−0.04	−0.35^***	−0.43^***	−0.27	0.03	0.07	−0.04	0.02	0.09	−0.15
T3 teachers	−0.17⁺	−0.33^*	−0.08	−0.23^*	−0.21	−0.28^*	−0.12	−0.18	−0.12	−0.09	−0.06	−0.23
T4 mothers	−0.21^*	−0.24⁺	−0.22⁺	−0.32^***	−0.32^**	−0.34^**	0.11	0.15	0.06	0.10	0.17	−0.06
T4 teachers	−0.10	−0.27^*	−0.01	−0.14	−0.26^*	−0.08	0.05	−0.01	0.06	0.12	−0.07	0.18
T4 observed	0.02	−0.04	0.09	0.00	−0.02	0.03	0.05	0.07	0.03	0.02	0.07	−0.04

^***

p<.001.

^**

p<.01.

p<.05.

⁺

p<.10.

Significant sex differences are in bold and italics. Marginal sex differences are in bold.