Table 4.

Hierarchical Regression Analyses for Variables Predicting Children’s Emotion Situation Knowledge

		Emotional situation knowledge
Model	Variable	B	SE B	β	R2 and ΔR2
1	Culture***	9.81	1.41	0.56	.34***
	Gender	−.90	1.33	−.05
	Age	−.16	.20	−.06
	Language skills	.04	.05	.07
	Mother’s education	.31	1.12	.02
	Time spent on task	.23	.22	.08
2	Culture**	5.20	2.05	.30	.05**
	Gender	−1.38	1.29	−.08
	Age	−.31	.20	−.18
	Language skills	.05	.05	.08
	Mother’s education	−.08	1.09	−.01
	Time spent on task	.26	.27	.09
	Mental states language*	2.67	1.12	.28
	Behavioral descriptions**	−5.70	1.92	−.29

Note. Immigrant Chinese and females were set as the reference group.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001.