TABLE 3.

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

	Number of Epochs of Misbehavior								Number of Epochs of Regulatory Efforts
	Disruptive				Focus on Gift				Support-Seeking				Distraction
	18	24	36	48	18	24	36	48	18	24	36	48	18	24	36	48
Maternal emotion
Negative total
18	−.03	.10	−.09	−.08	.01	−.03	.13	−.07	−.24	−.11	.01	−.07	−.14	.04	.02	.11
24	.10	.22	.13	.07	.07	.03	−.05	−.10	−.06	−.31*	−.13	.03	−.17	−.10	−.17	.03
36	.12	.15	.30*	−.01	−.01	.03	−.03	−.16	−.07	−.10	−.32*	.09	−.09	−.05	−.32*	−.15
48	.04	.08	.04	.24	−.05	.09	−.12	.06	.10	−.11	−.20	−.11	−.01	−.01	.08	−.24
Positive total
18	.22	.05	.05	.13	.00	−.06	.02	.00	.31*	−.03	.06	−.17	.19	.12	.17	−.01
24	.12	.10	.06	−.09	.11	−.05	−.03	.04	.14	.34*	.21	−.03	.08	.25	.15	.02
36	.04	.15	.03	−.10	−.16	.06	−.01	.09	.12	.14	.30*	.01	−.05	.06	.39*	.11
48	−.22	.06	.18	−.38*	.08	.04	.00	−.02	.10	.07	.21	.07	.07	.07	.12	.37*

Note. Maternal emotion is sum of ratings for 9 negative and 6 positive emotions on a 1–5 scale. Child misbehavior and regulatory behaviors were quantified as the number of 15s epochs in which the behavior was observed.

^*p < .005.