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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2008 Feb;22(1):123–134. doi: 10.1037/0893-3200.22.1.123

Table 1.

Zero-Order Correlations, Means, and Standard Deviations of Family Environment Variables

Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Positivity
 1. FES, cohesion: child
 2. FES, expressiveness: child .40
 3. CRPBI, acceptance: child .56 .34
 4. FES, cohesion: mother .29 .19 .31
 5. FES, expressiveness: mother .09 .08 .22 .52
 6. CRPBI, acceptance: mother .21 .15 .35 .49 .32
 7. Observed positive: child .11 .18 .20 .15 .12 .14
 8. Observed positive: mother .18 .20 .28 .26 .07 .27 .67
 9. Number of positive remarks .08 .21 .20 .24 .19 .20 .15 .27
Negativity
 10. FAD: child −.66 −.50 −.65 −.30 −.12 −.27 −.25 −.24 −.12
 11. CBQ: child −.53 −.26 −.75 −.19 −.16 −.26 −.17 −.22 −.09 .51
 12. FES, conflict: child −.62 −.41 −.45 −.22 −.06 −.14 −.22 −.25 −.09 .59 .52
 13. FAD: mother −.21 −.10 −.26 −.68 −.51 −.46 −.18 −.23 −.15 .31 .11 .12
 14. CBQ: mother −.19 −.15 −.36 −.51 −.31 −.55 −.32 −.38 −.19 .22 .34 .14 .41
 15. FES, conflict: mother −.22 −.14 −.23 −.55 −.20 −.49 −.12 −.24 −.08 .29 .16 .23 .54 .47
 16. Observed negativity: child −.28 −.21 −.36 −.26 −.04 −.20 −.44 −.47 −.10 .37 .34 .36 .17 .37 .26
 17. Observed negativity: mother −.12 −.08 −.13 −.10 −.02 −.27 −.37 −.52 −.18 .18 .14 .15 .10 .31 .22 .53
 18. Number of criticisms −.28 −.25 −.26 −.28 −.21 −.27 −.09 −.14 −.29 .23 .29 .17 .19 .33 .15 .14 .20
M 7.18 4.24 2.57 6.80 5.59 2.57 3.14 3.23 4.13 1.92 2.88 2.72 1.81 5.51 3.35 2.09 1.86 0.36
SD 1.97 1.74 0.35 2.39 1.67 0.19 0.74 0.62 2.97 0.49 3.75 2.16 0.46 4.90 2.25 0.75 0.71 0.78

Note. FES = Family Environment Scale; CRPBI = Children's Report of Parent Behavior Inventory; FAD = Family Assessment Device; CBQ = Conflict Behavior Questionnaire. Correlations ≥ |.14|, p < .05. Correlations ≥ |.19|, p < .01. Correlations ≥ |.23|, p < .001.