Table 1.

Means and standard deviations for anxiety, behavior, expectations, and outcomes

Variable	Total sample (N = 75) M (SD)	Anxious mothers (n = 38) M (SD)	Healthy mothers (n = 37) M (SD)	t
Maternal variables
Task anxiety	1.34 (1.57)	1.97 (1.76)	0.70 (1.05)	3.78**
Overcontrol	0.88 (0.80)	0.86 (0.91)	0.91 (0.68)	0.27
Anxious behavior	0.38 (0.55)	0.49 (0.61)	0.27 (0.45)	1.62
Expectations: distress	1.99 (0.83)	2.18 (0.73)	1.78 (0.89)	2.14*
Expectations: cope	3.88 (1.00)	3.66 (0.88)	4.11 (1.07)	1.99
Expectations: Performance	4.19 (0.74)	4.06 (0.71)	4.32 (0.75)	1.57
Child variables
Task anxiety	2.18 (2.06)	2.51 (2.05)	1.83 (2.05)	1.42
Distress	1.67 (0.94)	1.86 (1.00)	1.47 (0.84)	1.81
Coping	3.86 (1.33)	3.57 (1.34)	4.17 (1.25)	1.97
Performance	3.86 (1.27)	3.65 (1.40)	4.08 (1.11)	1.47

^**p < .01;

^*p < .05