Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Child Dev. 2012 Nov 6;22(3):270–288. doi: 10.1002/icd.1785

Table 4. Canonical correlations between temperament at 3 years old and social responsiveness at 4 years old.

Variate 1 Variate 2 Variate 1 Variate 1

Coeff r s Coeff r s Coeff r s Coeff r s

Social Responsiveness Set
Awareness .366 .147 .237 −.201 Awareness .761 .295 Awareness −.961 .644
Cognition .118 −.159 −.484 .800 Cognition −.151 .508 Cognition −.342 −.023
Communication −.392 .498 −.647 .753 Communication −.948 .721 Communication .622 .341
Motivation −.964 .857 .568 −.175 Motivation .175 −.372 Motivation .165 .349
Restr. Interests .418 −.137 −.384 .708 Restr. Interests −.157 .502 Restr. Interests .348 .249
Temperament Sets
Surgency/Extroversion Negative Affect Effortful Control
Activity Level −.222 .222 .484 .332 Anger .090 −.265 Attention Focus −.401 −.074
High Pleasure .139 .444 .215 .143 Discomfort −.075 −.117 Attention Shift −.082 .185
Impulsivity .082 .618 −.632 −.245 Fear −.412 .496 Inhib Control .795 .266
Pos. Anticip. .115 .188 −.293 .155 Sadness −.156 −.365 Low Pleasure −.373 −.164
Smiling −.049 .357 .434 .425 Soothability −.017 .179 Percep. Sens. .472 .248
Shyness −.907 .966 .246 −.032
Mother Ed. .156 .426 .446 .464 Mother Ed. .568 .648 Mother Ed. −.621 .529
Gender .047 −.225 −.594 .525 Gender −.569 .683 Gender .493 .530
 % Variance .46 .38 .40 .48

Note: Coeff, standardized canonical function (canonical loading); rs, structure coefficients (correlation coefficients); variables with the highest contribution to the canonical variate (in bold) were selected using a .45 cutoff for the structure coefficient.