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Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2009 Mar–Apr;80(2):578–592. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01280.x

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Girls and Boys

	Girls		Boys
	M	SD	M	SD	t
Marital conflict (parents)^a	4.15	4.74	4.27	4.66	0.21
Harsh parenting (parents)^a	5.67	3.66	6.06	3.77	0.83
Harsh parenting (child)^a	4.39	4.04	6.57	5.45	3.56^***
SCL baseline^a	5.13	3.53	6.51	5.23	2.36^*
SCL-stress task^a	5.99	4.06	7.60	5.89	2.44^*
SCL-challenge task^a	7.97	4.97	9.56	6.42	2.12^*
SCLR–stress task^b	−0.08	1.25	−0.12	1.33	−0.20
SCLR–challenge task^b	0.03	2.25	−0.22	2.52	−0.80
Internalizing (child)^c	0.09	0.87	−0.09	0.82	−1.69
Externalizing (parents)^d	49.52	6.91	47.91	7.63	−1.76

Note. SCL levels expressed in microsiemens. SCL = skin conductance level; SCLR = skin conductance level reactivity.

^a

Values are raw scores.

^b

Values are unstandardized residualized change scores.

^c

Values are averaged z scores.

^d

Values are T scores.

^*

p < .05.

^***

p < .001.

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