. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 19.

Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2009 Jul 1;55(3):250–284. doi: 10.1353/mpq.0.0022

Table 4.

Regression Slopes for Moderators of the Link between Mothers’ Educational Attainment and Children’s Educational Attainment

Moderators	Slopes	SE	t
Family and child characteristics
Family structure¹ (F[1, 481] = 4.47^**)
Nonintact families	.30^****	.05	5.57
Intact families	.17^****	.03	5.44
Child IQ (F[1, 394] = 6.78^**)
Low	.26^****	.03	8.10
Mean	.18^****	.03	5.66
High	.10^***	.03	3.21
Prekindergarten parenting
Parental warmth (F[1, 476] = 8.52^**)
Low	.31^****	.04	7.61
Mean	.24^****	.03	7.46
High	.16^****	.04	3.82
School adjustment (grades K–3)
Peer acceptance (F[1, 477] = 6.65^**)
Low	.31^****	.04	7.82
Mean	.24^****	.03	7.65
High	.18^****	.04	4.48
School performance (F[1, 400] = 4.27^**)
Low	.20^****	.05	4.08
Mean	.13^****	.03	4.20
High	.06	.05	1.36
Early adolescent parenting
Academic involvement² [F[1, 392] = 2.82^*)
Low	.27^****	.04	6.11
Mean	.22^****	.03	6.89
High	.17^****	.04	3.80
Parental monitoring³ (F[1, 390] = 6.02^**)
Low	.32^****	.04	7.20
Mean	.24^****	.03	7.72
High	.17^****	.04	3.75

Notes.

Family structure is coded as intact family = 0 and nonintact family = 1.

Academic involvement was reported by teachers.

Monitoring was reported by adolescent on grade 8.

p < .1,

^**

p < .05,

^***

p < .01,

^****

p < .001.