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

Variate 1 Variate 2 Variate 1 Variate 1 Variate 2

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

Social Responsiveness Set
Awareness .223 −.046 .601 .164 Awareness .244 −.198 Awareness .333 .642 .951 .555
Cognition −.107 −.321 −.058 .473 Cognition .288 .464 Cognition −.040 .558 −.034 −.267
Communication .017 .469 −.675 .617 Communication −1.09 .944 Communication −.008 .648 −.902 .516
Motivation −1.19 .941 .516 −.109 Motivation −.020 .606 Motivation −.082 .450 .029 −.262
Restr. Interests .28 −.246 −.725 .707 Restr. Interests −.212 .681 Restr. Interests .892 .954 −.020 −.247
Temperament Sets
Extraversion/Surgency Negative Affect Effortful Control
Activity −.004 .454 .314 −.008 Anger .275 −.415 Atten. Focus .350 .076 .007 .204
High Pleasure .059 .411 .017 −.151 Discomfort .102 −.374 Atten. Shift −.144 .547 −.301 −.336
Impulsivity .186 .760 −.068 −.078 Fear −.412 .521 Inhib. Control −.913 .873 −.126 −.231
Pos.Anticip. .026 .249 −.691 −.356 Sadness −.521 .497 Low Pleasure −.041 −.239 .397 .364
Smiling −.091 .327 .046 −.093 Soothability .352 .476 Percep. Sens. .208 −.247 −.478 −.197
Shyness −.864 .984 .284 −.028
Mother Ed. .583 .327 .742 .625 Mother Ed. .586 .621 Mother Ed. −.359 −.348 .603 .665
Gender −.194 −.159 −.614 .490 Gender −.343 −.425 Gender .068 .203 −.439 .517
 % Variance .63 .36 .43 .47 .32

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.