Table 6.

Intercorrelations Among the T4 Conflict Reactions

	Youths’ T4 Conflict Reactions				Mothers’ T4 Conflict Reactions
Conflict reactions	Negative Verbal	Anger Affect	Humor Verbal	Positive Affect	Hostile Verbal	Disharmonious Verbalizations	Anger Affect	Positive Affect/Verbal
Youth
Negative verbal
Anger affect	0.63***a
Humor verbal	−0.03	−0.06
Positive affect	0.10	−0.06	0.40***
Mother
Hostile verbal	0.49***	0.33***	−0.07	0.12
Disharmonious verbalizations	0.71***	0.43***b	−0.05	−0.06	0.42***
Anger affect	0.39***	0.47***	−0.24**	−0.24**	0.44***	0.47***
Positive affect/verbal	−0.13	−0.19*	0.40***	0.57***	−0.08	−0.18*	−0.49***

^***p<.001.

^**p<.01.

^*p<.05.

⁺p<.10.

^az = 2.31, p<.05, for the sex difference in correlations (.73** for girls and .46** for boys).

^bz = 2.32, p<.05, for the sex difference in correlations (.58** for girls and .23⁺ for boys).