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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2012 Jan 2;35(2):295–302. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.12.002

Table 2.

Comparison of 4 months and 9 months Still Face Paradigm affect and maternal interaction scores

4 months Mean (SD) 9 months Mean (SD) t test Correlations between 4 & 9 months
Play/Baseline Episode-Maternal Attention Seeking .81 (.21) .67 (.30) t=2.106 p=.046 R=0.180 p=.389
Play/Baseline Episode-Maternal Contingent Responding .15 (.20) .31 (.31) t=−2.373 p=.026 R=0.275 p=.183
Play/Baseline Episode-Percent Positive Affect .15 (.20) .26 (.27) t=−1.862 p=.075 R=0.243 p=.241
Reunion/Play Episode-Maternal Attention Seeking .69 (.26) .61 (.31) t=1.107 p=.279 R=0.192 p=.359
Reunion/Play Episode-Maternal Contingent Responding .26 (.26) .35 (.31) t=−1.302 p=.205 R=0.198 p=.343
Reunion/Play Episode-Percent Positive Affect .18 (.23) .25 (.27) t=−1.862 p=.075 R=0.356 p=.081
Stress Response −.56 (.48) −.89 (.75) t=1.989 p=.058 R=0.137 p=.514

N= 25 children per group