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Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2001 Nov–Dec;50(6):346–355. doi: 10.1097/00006199-200111000-00004

TABLE 3.

Correlations Among Employment, Control, and Child Cognitive and Behavioral Variables

	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Total Sample
1 Mother’s education	.31^**	−.29^**	−.17	.10	−.04	.29^**	.16	.31^**	−.15	.15	.11	−.03	−.08	−.21^*
2 Family income		.01	−.18	.13	−.08	.43^**	.20^*	.26^**	−.16	.24^**	.17	.15	−.01	.07
3 No. children in family			.11	.01	.08	−.17	−.24^**	−.33^**	.12	−.35^**	−.06	−.32^**	−.07	.21^*
4 Proportion child’s life single				.02	.06	−.09	−.09	−.13	.11	−.18	−.13	−.07	−.02	.14
5 Gestational status (1 = preterm)					.02	.01	.17	.07	−.008	−.06	−.01	−.04	−.09	.08
6 Attachment strains						−.19^*	−.01	−.09	.28^**	−.23^*	−.15	−.17	.28^**	.29^**
7 Hours employed per week							.44^**	.64^**	−.51^**	.29^**	.20^*	.17	−.18	−.12
8 Worked in first year of life?								.66^**	−.14	.13	.08	.20^*	−.06	−.06
9 Proportion child’s life employed									−.34^**	.16	.06	.13	−.10	−.09
10 Discrepancy										−.28^**	−.24^**	−.27^**	.27^**	.20^*
11 Achievement (KABC)											.66^**	.66^**	−.13	−.19^*
12 Mental processes (KABC)												.52^**	−.16	−.15
13 PPVT-R													−.13	−.15
14 Externalizing behavior														.62^**
15 Internalizing behavior														—

Note. KABC = Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children; PPVT-R = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised.

^*

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.