Table 3.

Family Study: Infants’ Attachment to Mothers and to Fathers and Their Tense Discomfort and Reparation at Toddler Age as Predictors of Antisocial Behavior Problems at 6 ½ – 8 Years

Predictors	F	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta
Step 1
C Gender	4.58*	.22	3.94*	.21	2.77	.19	1.04	.11
R2 = .05, F (1, 87) = 4.58*
Step 2
C Attachment security with M, 15 mo.			< 1	−.02	< 1	−.04	< 1	−.03
C Attachment security with F, 15 mo.			1.31	−.12	< 1	−.10	< 1	−.02
R2 = .07, F (3, 85) = 1.98
Step 3
C Tense discomfort, 38 mo.					< 1	−.09	11.25***	−.80
C Reparation, 38 mo.					< 1	.01	< 1	−.21
R2 = .07, F (5, 83) = 1.29
Step 4
C Tense discomfort × C attachment security with M							4.51*	.31
C Tense discomfort × C attachment security with F							7.82***	.55
C Reparation × C attachment security with M							< 1	.13
C Reparation × C attachment security with F							< 1	.14
R2 = .19, F (9, 79) = 2.12*

M=Mother, F=Father, C=Child. Mo.=Months. Predictors entered as follows: at Step 1, child gender (0=girl, 1=boy), at Step 2, security with mother and security with father (0=insecure, 1=secure), at Step 3, child tense discomfort and reparation, and at Step 4, four interaction terms: child tense discomfort × attachment security with mother and child tense discomfort × attachment security with father and child reparation × attachment security with mother and child reparation × attachment security with father.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .025.

^***p < .01.

^****p < .001.