Table 11.

Relations of Youths’ Externalizing to Youths’ and Mothers’ Conflict Reactions at T4

	Mothers’ T4 Conflict Reactions				Youths’ T4 Conflict Reactions
Externalizing	Hostile Verbal	Disharmonious Verbalizations	Anger Affect	Positive Aff/Verbal	Negative Verbal	Anger Affect	Humor Verbal	Positive Affect
T2 mothers
Total	0.18*	0.31***	0.31***	−0.31***	0.20*	0.37***	−0.15	−0.28**
Girls	0.32*	0.44***	0.55***	−0.41***	0.25+	0.33**	−0.20	−0.38**
Boys	0.00	0.19	0.04	−0.19	0.16	0.44***	−0.11	−0.13
T2 fathers
Total	0.30**	0.20+	0.25*	−0.17	0.09	0.18	−0.01	−0.04
Girls	0.37*	0.20	0.27+	−0.29+	0.05	0.09	−0.07	−0.20
Boys	0.21	0.18	0.19	−0.05	0.12	0.28+	0.04	0.16
T2 teachers
Total	0.04	0.20*	0.17+	−0.05	0.17+	0.23*	0.04	−0.04
Girls	0.22	0.54***	0.46***	−0.26*	0.35**	0.33*	−0.05	−0.08
Boys	−0.16	−0.03	−0.15	0.17	0.06	0.22	0.12	0.10
T3 mothers
Total	0.22*	0.20*	0.24**	−0.22*	0.17+	0.34***	−0.07	−0.10
Girls	0.35**	0.32*	0.39**	−0.39**	0.23+	0.31*	−0.17	−0.19
Boys	0.07	0.09	0.04	−0.02	0.16	0.41***	0.03	0.05
T3 fathers
Total	0.28**	0.26*	0.24*	−0.05	0.27*	0.44***	0.04	0.03
Girls	0.44**	0.31*	0.25	−0.23	0.33*	0.41**	0.00	−0.03
Boys	0.09	0.22	0.21	0.12	0.22	0.49***	0.07	0.09
T3 teachers
Total	0.10	0.16	0.23*	0.03	0.13	0.25**	0.10	0.02
Girls	0.17	0.46***	0.16	−0.01	0.25+	0.23+	0.14	−0.03
Boys	0.02	−0.08	0.15	0.14	0.10	0.30*	0.11	0.17
T4 mothers
Total	0.22*	0.24**	0.37***	−0.31***	0.25**	0.37***	−0.17+	−0.15+
Girls	0.32**	0.32*	0.60***	−0.44***	0.34**	0.42***	−0.29*	−0.24+
Boys	0.11	0.17	0.11	−0.15	0.21+	0.37**	−0.06	0.01
T4 fathers
Total	0.20*	0.33***	0.33***	−0.20*	0.20*	0.36***	−0.10	−0.13
Girls	0.23	0.36**	0.26+	−0.15	0.21	0.26	−0.03	−0.09
Boys	0.15	0.28*	0.37**	−0.21	0.22	0.47***	−0.15	−0.11
T4 teachers
Total	0.21*	0.10	0.19*	−0.16+	0.09	0.18*	0.02	−0.12
Girls	0.36**	0.32*	0.21+	−0.08	0.26*	0.24+	0.10	0.01
Boys	0.11	−0.05	0.05	−0.14	0.01	0.19	0.01	−0.12

^***p<.001.

^**p<.01.

^*p<.05.

⁺p<.10.

Significant sex differences are in bold and italics. Marginal sex differences are in bold. Aff = affect.