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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 26.
Published in final edited form as: Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. 2008;73(2):vii–160. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2008.00470.x

Table 14.

Relations of Observed T2/T3 Parenting Behavior With Youths’ Conflict Reactions

Youths’ T4 Conflict Reactions
Negative Verbal Anger Affect Humor Verbal Positive Affect
Total Girls Boys Total Girls Boys Total Girls Boys Total Girls Boys
Parenting
 T2 warmth 0.02 0.06 −0.10 −0.03 0.08 −0.26* 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.14 0.07 0.14
 T2 positive affect −0.13 −0.29* 0.05 −0.22* −0.27* −0.19 −0.06 0.01 −0.19 0.05 0.02 −0.04
 T3 warmth −0.07 −0.09 −0.05 −0.04 −0.02 −0.07 0.11 −0.03 0.26* −0.01 −0.09 0.07
 T3 warmth −0.10 −0.12 −0.09 −0.12 −0.05 −0.21 −0.10 −0.12 −0.09 0.03 0.02 0.01
Discussion of emotion
 T2 mothers −0.10 −0.14 −0.12 −0.26** −0.33* −0.21 −0.03 0.01 −0.12 0.12 0.04 0.12
 T3 mothers −0.15 −0.05 −0.26* −0.09 −0.12 −0.06 0.07 0.22+ −0.06 0.10 0.16 0.06
**

p<.01.

*

p<.05.

+

p<.10.

Marginal sex differences are in bold.