Table II.

Hierarchical Regression of Parent Symptom Talk and Parent Non-Symptom Talk Predicting Child Symptom Complaints

Variable	R2	ΔR2	F	df	B	SE B	β
Step 1:	.02	.02	.26	2, 30
Child gender					.05	.03	.20
Child age					−.01	.01	−.06
Step 2:	.56	.54**	8.95**	4, 28
Parent symptom talk					.62	.21	.58*
Parent non-symptom talk					−.20	.17	−.24

Note. *p < .05. **p < .001. B, SE B, and β reflect values in the final step of the analyses.