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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2013 Nov 27;26(1):93–109. doi: 10.1017/S0954579413000850

Table 5.

Play Study: Mothers’ Responsiveness at 30 Months and Children’s Tense Discomfort and Reparation at 33 Months as Predictors of Externalizing Behavior Problems at 40 Months

Predictors	F	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta
Step 1
C Gender	4.74^*	.17	4.32^*	.16	2.42	.12	2.33	.12
R² = .03, F (1, 160) = 4.74^*
Step 2
M Responsiveness, 30 mo.			2.36	−.12	2.06	−.11	1.03	−.08
R² = .04, F (2, 159) = 3.57^*
Step 3
C Tense discomfort, 33 mo.					4.44^*	−.17	8.04^***	−.26
C Reparation, 33 mo.					< 1	−.02	< 1	−.00
R² = .07, F (4, 157) = 2.97^**
Step 4
C Tense discomfort × M responsiveness							4.96^*	.20
C Reparation × M responsiveness							< 1	.07
R² = .11, F (6, 155) = 3.28^***

M=Mother, C=Child. Mo.=Months. Predictors entered as follows: at Step 1, child gender (0=girl, 1=boy), at Step 2, mother responsiveness, at Step 3, child tense discomfort and reparation, and at Step 4, the interaction terms: child tense discomfort × mother responsiveness and child reparation × mother responsiveness

p < .05.

^**

p < .025.

^***

p < .01.

^****

p < .001.