. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Parent Sci Pract. 2013 Feb 5;13(2):113–132. doi: 10.1080/15295192.2012.709152

TABLE 2.

Correlations between Maternal and Child Emotion at Each Child Age (in Months)

	Maternal Emotion								Child Emotion

	Negative Total				Positive Total				Anger Composite				Contentment Composite

	24	36	48	18	24	36	48	18	24	36	48	18	24	36	48

Maternal emotion
Negative total
18	.16	.11	.16	−.45^*	−.14	−.03	−.06	.39^*	.12	−.07	.01	−.22	−.13	−.03	−.04
24	-	.39^*	.27^*	−.03	−.61^*	−.19	−.16	.03	.23	.15	.21	.07	−.14	−.12	.01
36	-	-	.33^*	−.09	−.23	−.57^*	−.32^*	−.02	.01	.48^*	.22	.00	.05	−.32^*	−.14
48	-	-	-	.08	−.16	−.09	−.55^*	−.12	.02	.08	.43^*	.20	−.02	−.14	−.24
Positive total
18	-	-	-	-	.16	.25	.07	−.42^*	−.08	−.09	−.04	.35^*	.10	.09	−.03
24	-	-	-	-	-	.36^*	.26	−.02	−.37^*	−.27	−.20	−.08	.30^*	.21	.08
36	-	-	-	-	-	-	.48^*	.03	.00	−.48^*	−.14	−.03	−.01	.36^*	.15
48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.08	.00	−.23	−.38^*	−.13	.02	.17	.34^*
Child emotion
Anger composite
18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.24	.08	.11	−.76^*	−.27^*	−.09	−.11
24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.34^*	.10	−.04	−.77^*	−.25	.01
36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.00	.03	−.26	−.71^*	−.28^*
48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	−.02	−.12	−.38^*	−.58^*
Content composite
18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.11	−.03	.00
24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.21	−.02
36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.25

Note. Maternal emotion is sum of ratings for 9 negative and 6 positive emotions on a 1–5 scale. To create child emotion composites, standardized scores for latency (reverse-scored), duration, and intensity (for anger only) were summed.

p < .005.