Table 4.
SCLR as a Moderator of Child-Reported Harsh Parenting
| Predictors | Externalizing behavior (parent report) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stress task |
Challenge task |
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| βstep | ΔF | ΔR2 | βstep | ΔF | ΔR2 | |
| Step 1 | ||||||
| Age | .02 | 2.16 | .06* | .03 | 2.11 | .06 |
| Sex | −.07 | −.06 | ||||
| Ethnicity | −.05 | −.04 | ||||
| Socioeconomic status | −.10 | −.12 | ||||
| Internalizing symptoms | .15* | .13 | ||||
| Marital conflict | .15* | .14* | ||||
| Step 2 | ||||||
| Harsh parenting (child report) | .11 | 4.58 | .04* | .09 | 3.24 | .03* |
| SCLR | −.17* | −.14* | ||||
| Step 3 | ||||||
| Harsh Parenting × SCLR | −.14* | 4.15 | .02* | −.13* | 3.95 | .02* |
| Step 4 | ||||||
| Harsh Parenting × Sex | −.11 | 0.85 | .01 | −.13 | 1.14 | .01 |
| SCLR × Sex | .01 | .02 | ||||
| Step 5 | ||||||
| Harsh Parenting × SCLR × Sex | .08 | 0.80 | .00 | .16 | 2.65 | .01 |
Note. n = 221 for stress task analysis; n = 223 for challenge task analysis. For gender, boys are coded as 0 and girls are coded as 1. For ethnicity, European Americans are coded as 0 and African Americans are coded as 1. SCLR = skin conductance level reactivity.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.