TABLE 3.
Within-Parent Associations Between 10- and 14-Year Parenting Stress, Controlling for Stability in the 14 Year Stress Scale
| 14 Years |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 10 years | Parental Distress | Difficult Child | Dysfunctional Interaction |
| A. | Mother | ||
| Parental distress | -- | -.00 | -.02 |
| Difficult child | .19* | -- | .03 |
| Dysfunctional interaction | .22* | .03 | -- |
| B. | Father | ||
| Parental distress | -- | .18 | .19* |
| Difficult child | .20* | -- | .24** |
| Dysfunctional interaction | .09 | .23* | -- |
Note. df = 108. Scales were residualized for parental education and social desirability (as needed) prior to computing correlations.
*
p ≤ .05.
**
p ≤ .01.