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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers. 2008 Dec;76(6):1485–1521. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00529.x

Table 2.

Estimates of Variance Components and Proportions of Variance in Personality and the Moderating Variables of Parental Conflict and Regard and their Genetic and Environmental Correlations

Moderating Variable
Variance components Proportions of variance Correlations with moderator Variance components Proportions of variance Correlations with moderator
A
C
E
A(%)
C(%)
E(%)
rA
rC
rE
A
C
E
A(%)
C(%)
E(%)
rA
rC
rE
Regard
Conflict
Positive Emotionality
No Moderation Model 0.52 0.02 0.46 0.52 0.02 0.46 0.33 1.00 0.16 0.46 0.08 0.46 0.46 0.08 0.46 −0.04 1.00 0.12
Positive Emotionality at Level of Moderator
−2 0.38 0.02 0.69 0.35 0.02 0.64 −0.01 1.00 0.25 0.41 0.49 0.37 0.32 0.39 0.29 0.01 0.76 0.33
−1 0.42 0.02 0.57 0.42 0.02 0.57 0.27 1.00 0.24 0.41 0.23 0.40 0.39 0.22 0.38 0.01 0.86 0.23
0 0.53 0.02 0.46 0.52 0.02 0.46 0.50 1.00 0.22 0.41 0.09 0.44 0.44 0.09 0.47 0.01 0.99 0.14
1 0.71 0.02 0.37 0.65 0.02 0.34 0.65 1.00 0.20 0.41 0.06 0.49 0.43 0.06 0.51 0.01 0.73 0.05
2 0.95 0.02 0.28 0.76 0.01 0.23 0.75 1.00 0.17 0.41 0.14 0.54 0.37 0.13 0.50 0.01 0.14 −0.03
Negative Emotionality
No Moderation Model 0.40 0.01 0.51 0.43 0.02 0.55 0.32 1.00 0.18 0.41 0.00 0.52 0.44 0.00 0.56 0.51 1.00 0.30
Negative Emotionality at Level of Moderator
−2 0.21 0.02 0.51 0.28 0.03 0.69 0.17 1.00 0.22 0.73 0.10 0.50 0.55 0.08 0.37 0.67 −0.73 0.31
−1 0.30 0.02 0.51 0.35 0.03 0.62 0.29 1.00 0.22 0.54 0.02 0.50 0.52 0.01 0.47 0.62 −0.72 0.31
0 0.41 0.02 0.51 0.43 0.02 0.55 0.38 1.00 0.22 0.39 0.01 0.50 0.44 0.01 0.56 0.56 0.79 0.31
1 0.54 0.02 0.51 0.50 0.02 0.48 0.44 1.00 0.22 0.27 0.07 0.50 0.32 0.09 0.59 0.46 0.75 0.31
2 0.69 0.02 0.51 0.56 0.02 0.42 0.48 1.00 0.22 0.18 0.22 0.50 0.20 0.25 0.56 0.31 0.75 0.31

Note. The variance components are raw and thus do not necessarily sum to 1.00. The proportions of variance sum to 1.00.