Table 2.

Zero-Order Correlations among Mother and Child Variables by Culture

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
		European Americans
1. Age	-	.37**	−.05	.08	.09	.13	.05	−.13	−.01	.12	.05	−.08	.14
2. Language skills	.31**		.03	.20*	.03	.10	.05	.10	.18	.07	.12	−.02	.07
3. ESK	−.02	.16		.05	.22*	.02	.09	−.07	.13	.19*	−.23*	.01	.24*
4. Mother’s education	.03	−.06	−.08		.06	.02	−.02	−.20*	−.08	.03	−.15	.15	.15
5. Cognitions	.11	.06	−.09	−.06		.26*	.41***	.21*	−.16	.94***	−.07	.02	.72***
6. Desires	.38**	.14	−.06	−.25*	.00		.10	.24*	.27*	.47***	.24*	−.08	.12
7. Modulations of assertions	.08	−.06	.10	−.01	.03	.01		.02	.15	.54***	.18	.08	.26*
8. Emotional states	−.01	.17	.12	.03	.04	.07	.02		.17	.34**	.08	−.19	.06
9. Other mental states	.08	−.04	−.06	−.16	.17	.07	−.09	.37**		.27*	.15	.04	.13
10. All mental states	.29*	.13	.10	−.19	.69***	.52***	.27*	.46***	.45***		.06	.01	.68***
11. Behavior Descriptions	−.04	.23*	−.06	−.15	.02	.33**	.05	.16	.11	.26*		−.03	−.37**
12. Emotional Behavior	−.14	−.04	−.24*	−.05	.11	.19	−.07	.23*	.12	.24*	.28*		.03
13. Mental States Focus	.34**	.09	.11	−.07	.64***	.29*	.38**	.32**	.37**	.81**	−.20	−.09
	Immigrant Chinese

Note. European American correlations are above the diagonal, and Immigrant Chinese are below.

ESK = emotion situation knowledge,

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001 (all significance tests are one-tailed).