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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infancy. 2011 Mar;16(2):198–210. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00036.x

Table 2.

Hierarchical Regression Model Predicting Kindergarten Social Inhibition

Model Coefficient


Variable ΔR2 R2 95% CI F b (SE) 95% CI β t
Step 1 .09* .09 −.01, .19 3.35*
    Fear of novelty 0.01 (0.00) 0.00, 0.01 0.22 2.28*
    Proximity to threat −0.03 (0.03) −0.09, 0.04 −0.04 −0.46
    Attention to threat 0.49 (0.27) −0.04, 1.02 0.17 1.82
Step 2 .05* .14 .03, .25 3.36*
    Fear of novelty 0.01 (0.00) 0.00, 0.01 0.23 2.49*
    Proximity to threat −0.02 (0.03) −0.08, 0.04 −0.07 −0.71
    Attention to threat 0.90 (0.32) 0.28, 1.53 0.31 2.86**
    Attention to threat X Fear of novelty −0.02 (0.02) −0.05, 0.02 −0.08 −0.88
    Attention to threat X Proximity to threat −0.68 (0.30) −1.28, −0.09 −0.25 −2.28*
Simple Slopes
    Attention to threat at Proximity to threat = 0 0.90 (0.32) 0.28, 1.53 0.31 2.86**
    Attention to threat at Proximity to threat = 1 0.22 (0.30) −0.38, 0.80 0.08 0.46
    Attention to threat at Proximity to threat = 2 −0.47 (0.51) −1.47, 0.54 −0.16 −0.92

Note. CI = Confidence Interval. df = (3, 104), and (5, 102) for Steps 1 and 2, respectively. Simple slopes of Attention were examined by recentering proximity at the values listed in the table.

p < .10,

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01