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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parent Sci Pract. 2010 Jan 1;10(1):60–77. doi: 10.1080/15295190903014638

TABLE 4.

Associations between Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Stress from 10 To 14 Years, Controlling for Stability in the 14-Year Scale
Parental Distress Difficult Child Dysfunctional Interaction
A. Fathers at 14 Years
Mothers at 10 years
Parental distress .19* -.07 .01
Difficult child .09 .02 .05
Dysfunctional interaction .07 .04 .00
B. Mothers at 14 Years
Fathers at 10 years
Parental distress .23* .08 -.01
Difficult child .25** .27** .17
Dysfunctional interaction .26** .20* .14

Note. df = 108. Scales were residualized for parental education and social desirability (as needed) prior to computing correlations.

*

p ≤ .05.

**

p ≤ .01.