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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cross Cult Res. 2012 Jul 3;46(3):191–223. doi: 10.1177/1069397112440931

Table 3.

Warmth: Descriptive statistics, country deviation from the grand mean within mothers and fathers, main effects of parent gender within country, and correlations between mothers and fathers

Mother
Father
Mother vs. Father Fa ra
M SD Country vs. Grand Mean ta M SD Country vs. Grand Mean ta
China 3.37 .44 -10.33*** 3.07 .55 -14.05*** 21.15*** .02
Colombia 3.85 .28 6.63*** 3.86 .32 7.60*** .06 -.06
Italy 3.76 .25 3.31*** 3.57 .39 -.66 34.45***b .18*
Jordan 3.59 .46 -2.72** 3.57 .46 -.44 .63 .38***
Kenya 3.35 .50 -7.66*** 3.44 .47 -3.31*** 4.48* .22*
Philippines 3.82 .23 3.76*** 3.69 .35 2.46* 12.62*** .31**
Sweden 3.87 .22 4.77*** 3.75 .30 3.68*** 5.13* .14
Thailand 3.57 .38 -2.54* 3.50 .44 -1.94 4.06*b .15
United States 3.84 .29 5.33*** 3.79 .29 5.90*** 3.51 .18*

Grand Mean 3.67 .40 -- 3.58 .46 -- -- .34***
*

p ≤ .05.

**

p ≤ .01.

***

p ≤ .001.

a

Controlling for parental age, education, and social desirability, and child age.

b

See Figure 1 for a Parent gender by Child gender interaction in this country.