. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 10.

Published in final edited form as: Infancy. 2009 May 1;14(3):325–345. doi: 10.1080/15250000902839971

TABLE 1.

Means and Standard Deviations of Study Variables

	Time 1		Time 2
Study Variable	M	SD	M	SD
Mother-reported shyness	3.30	1.03	3.31^b	1.03
Caregiver-reported shyness	3.19	1.10	3.21^c	1.09
Mother-reported fear	2.44^a	.84	2.61	.84
Caregiver-reported fear	2.28	.86	2.19	.81
Spider proximity to mother	1.52	.63	1.30	.51
Spider approach	.27	.22	.29	.28
Spider number of touches	1.18	.83	1.36	.70
Spider latency to first touch	46.73	48.53	24.26	39.71
Maternal intrusiveness	1.19	.31	1.10	.22
Maternal sensitivity	3.59	.47	3.77^d	.36
Composite sensitivity	2.39	.37	2.44	.27

Sex difference: t(226) = −2.29, p < .05, M = 2.32 for boys and M = 2.57 for girls.

Sex difference: t(213) = −3.15, p < .01, M = 3.10 for boys and M = 3.54 for girls.

Sex difference: t(119) = −2.40, p < .05, M = 2.99 for boys and M = 3.45 for girls.

Sex difference: t(213.96) = −2.14, p < .05, M = 3.73 for boys and M = 3.83 for girls.