Table 3.

Indirect Effects of Effortful Control on Academic Adjustment through Externalizing, Internalizing and Peer Rejection

	School Readiness			Math Skills			Reading Skills
		95% CI			95% CI			95% CI
	Effect	Lower	Upper	Effect	Lower	Upper	Effect	Lower	Upper
TOTAL	.19*	.01	.36	.06	−.04	.13	.06	−.05	.15
Externalizing Behavior	.01	−.13	.15	−.02	−.12	.06	−.02	−.13	.07
Internalizing Behavior	.11*	.02	.24	.03	−.01	.10	.04	−.02	.12
Peer Rejection	.07	−.06	.23	.05	−.05	.12	.04	−.07	.13

Note: Demographic Variables (Sex and Income) were controlled in all mediation paths. Effect is the product-of-coefficients effect size and the confidence intervals are bias-corrected bootstrap estimates.

^*p < .05