Table 3. Parent-Reported Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions, Children's Friendship Quality and Child Age: Descriptive Statistics ^a and Intercorrelations (Study 2).

			MSR	MNR	FSR	FNR	FP-CP	FP-CI	ST-CP	ST-CI	Age
Mother-reported supportive reactions (MSR)			--	.03	.33^*	-.15	-.04	.01	.29^*	-.19	.18
Mother-reported non-supportive reactions (MNR)				--	-.20	.36^*	-.02	-.11	-.06	.08	-.05
Father-reported supportive reactions (FSR)					--	-.45^**	-.05	-.16	.33^*	-.16	-.06
Father-reported non-supportive reactions (FNR)						--	-.05	.07	-.29	.19	-.20
Free-play coordinated play (FP-CP)							--	.13	.36^*	.09	-.02
Free-play conflict intensity (FP-CI)								--	-.16	.55^***	-.12
Sharing-task coordinated play (ST-CP)									--	-.40^**	-.19
Sharing-task conflict intensity (ST-CI) ^b										--	.06
Child age											--

	Boys:	Mean	4.07	1.78	3.72	2.16	-.34	.06	-.26	.13	52.58
		SD	.44	.43	.54	.59	1.67	.07	1.79	.16	3.81
	Girls:	Mean	4.05	1.61	3.80	1.94	.28	.08	.21	.05	51.25
		SD	.32	.30	.47	.55	1.98	.06	1.56	.12	2.61

Note: In no case did bivariate associations between parent-reported reactions to children's negative emotions and the friendship outcomes differ by child gender.

Means for the measures of child-friend coordinated play were based on composites of standardized scores. Log scores for conflict intensity were utilized in the analyses, but for ease of interpretation, descriptive statistics are presented for the raw conflict scores.

Partial correlations controlling for child gender are presented for conflict intensity in the sharing task.

p < .05,

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p < .01,

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p < .001

Table 3. Parent-Reported Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions, Children's Friendship Quality and Child Age: Descriptive Statistics a and Intercorrelations (Study 2).

Table 3. Parent-Reported Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions, Children's Friendship Quality and Child Age: Descriptive Statistics ^a and Intercorrelations (Study 2).