Table 2.
Correlations among Early Mother-Child Separation, Parenting at Age 3, and Child Outcomes at Ages 3 and 5
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Early Separation | 1.0 | ||||||||
| 2. Maternal sensitivity, age 3 | -.01 | 1.0 | |||||||
| 3. Maternal detachment, age 3 | -.02 | -.44*** | 1.0 | ||||||
| 4. Maternal warmth, age 3 | -.04 | .30*** | -.17*** | 1.0 | |||||
| 5. Child receptive vocabulary, age 3 | .01 | .22*** | -.12*** | .20*** | 1.0 | ||||
| 6. Child aggression, age 3 | .06* | -.07** | .02 | -.12*** | -.09*** | 1.0 | |||
| 7. Child negativity, age 3 | .06* | -.33*** | .11*** | -.13*** | -.12*** | .10*** | 1.0 | ||
| 8. Child receptive vocabulary, age 5 | -.01 | .30*** | -.13*** | .20*** | .59*** | -.08* | -.14*** | 1.0 | |
| 9. Child aggression, age 5 | .06* | -.08** | .01 | -.10*** | -.05 | .51*** | .11** | -.09** | 1.0 |
| 10. Child negativity, age 5 | -.00 | -.07* | -.01 | .00 | -.03 | .06 | .18*** | .01 | .11*** |
Note: Because the indicator of early separation is dichotomous, its correlations with all parenting behaviors and child outcomes, which are continuously measured, are point-biserial correlations, whereas all others in the table are Pearson correlations. All may be interpreted similarly.
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001