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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2008 Sep;44(5):1335–1353. doi: 10.1037/a0013030

Descriptive Statistics for Maternal Responsiveness Behaviors and Children’s Outcomes by Study Group for Each Assessment Point

PALS I
DAS I
PALS II
DAS II
PALS II
DAS II
Maternal behavior 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Maternal behaviors
Contingent Responsiveness’a 3.1 3.7 3.3 3.4 2.7 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.6 3.1 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.9 2.8 2.7
.9 1.1 .9 1.1 .9 1.0 .8 1.0 .8 .9 .8 .8 .9 1.0 1.1 1.0
Warm sensitivitya 3.0 3.7 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.5 3.1 2.7 2.4 2.7 3.0 2.6 2.5
1.0 1.2 .8 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.1 .9 1.0 .9 1.1 1.0 .9
Positive affect 2.4 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.6 2.9 2.5 2.4
1.0 1.3 1.3 1.1 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Maintaining 75.9 76.8 83.9 86.1 76.9 80.1 80.0 79.1 68.0 74.0 78.1 77.5 68.6 74.0 74.3 80.7
22.2 21.4 13.9 15.2 22.4 17.9 17.4 15.4 19.0 17.7 15.5 17.6 22.7 17.7 20.8 16.1
Redirecting 15.4 14.9 12.3 7.1 15.9 15.4 14.0 14.1 24.4 18.6 16.8 16.0 23.1 17.6 16.1 10.7
17.5 18.7 12.1 9.7 16.8 15.9 14.9 13.9 18.0 14.8 12.3 12.7 21.9 14.5 13.9 12.5
Verbal scaffolding .9 1.3 1.3 .9 .9 1.4 1.2 1.5 1.5 2.0 1.1 1.0 1.5 1.3 1.1 .8
1.4 1.9 1.6 1.2 1.1 2.7 1.9 2.2 1.9 2.4 1.6 2.1 2.2 2.1 1.7 1.3
Verbal encouragement 11.8 17.4 8.7 14.0 14.3 10.9 10.4 9.0 10.9 13.2 12.9 12.1 14.0 11.7 7.9 9.3
13.2 16.4 9.2 16.5 15.7 12.2 12.5 14.1 13.3 11.2 14.6 14.2 16.5 13.0 10.4 11.7

Children’s outcomes with mother
Cooperation .4 .6 .5 .4 −.5 .2 .2 .2 .1 .6 .58 .53 .15 .28 .50 .59
.9 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.2 1.1 .9 1.0 .84 .75 .89 .99 .92 .95
Social engagementa 2.9 3.6 3.5 3.7 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.4 2.8 3.6 3.2 3.2 2.9 3.0 3.3 3.2
1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2 .9 1.0 .9 1.0 1.0 .89 1.0 1.0 1.0 .95 .97
Positive affectb −4.0 −4.2 −3.8 −4.0 −3.8 −4.0 −4.2 −4.1 −3.9 −4.2 −3.8 −4.0 −3.7 −3.9 −3.8 −3.8
1.4 1.1 1.4 1.4 1.7 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.1 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.5
Use of wordsb .5 1.0 .8 1.1 −.0 .6 .7 .8 .4 .9 .80 1.0 .26 .46 .70 .79
1.0 1.4 1.0 1.0 1.3 1.0 .8 1.0 1.0 .9 .86 .67 1.1 1.2 .94 .97
Coordinating attention and wordsb −1.8 −1.6 −1.5 −1.7 −1.2 −1.9 −1.9 −1.4 −1.9 −1.7 −1.6 −1.8 −1.9 −1.8 −1.8 −1.7
.7 1.0 .8 1.0 1.0 1.1 .9 .9 .9 1.0 .9 1.1 .74 .83 .89 .76

Children’s standardized language test outcomes
Receptive vocabularyc 13.7 19.7 22.2 25.6 10.8 15.3 18.5 23.6 14.0 17.4 22.7 24.3 14.1 17.7 22.4 25.8
10.2 12.1 10.8 14.6 9.8 15.4 12.8 16.5 9.4 9.8 11.7 11.0 10.6 12.2 13.8 17.1
Composite receptive languagec 20.9 24.2 26.0 28.0 21.2 22.7 25.4 26.3 21.8 23.4 26.3 27.8 22.3 23.7 25.4 26.7
5.6 6.3 6.3 5.0 6.1 6.5 6.6 6.5 4.7 6.6 5.4 5.0 5.5 6.1 6.1 6.9
Composite expressive languagec 21.0 23.0 23.2 24.4 19.9 21.1 23.6 24.2 21.0 23.3 25.1 25.5 20.3 22.2 23.6 25.5
5.1 4.0 4.1 5.0 4.1 5.0 4.9 5.7 3.3 4.0 4.0 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.3 4.6

Note. The mean for each variable at each time point is the top number; the standard deviation is the bottom number. Assessment time points: 1 = pretest; 2 = interim; 3 = posttest; 4 = follow-up.

a

Variable is based on a 5-point rating; higher scores are more positive.

b

Variable is a scaled score using a Rasch modeling approach; less negative numbers are more positive.

c

Variable is a raw score.