Table 3.

Means (and Standard Deviations) for Children's Narrative Categories at Session 1 based on Recalled Events (Panel a) and Correlations with Maternal Narrative Variables at Session 1 (Panel b)

Category	Panel a: Children's Recall and Narratives at Session 1			Panel b: Correlations with Maternal Narrative Variables at Session 1
	Mean	SD	Range	Elaboration Ratio	Deflections
Proportion of events recalled	0.83	0.22	(0–1)	.36**	.26*
Total propositions	15.96	7.38	4.50–44.33	.07	.54**
Total content	8.08	4.20	2.00–23.17	.35**	.35**
Breadth	3.59	1.09	1–6.00	.36**	.30**
Who	1.23	0.89	0–3.67	−.12	.02
What-object	2.04	1.32	0–8.67	.37**	.30*
What-action	1.52	1.06	0–4.50	.34**	.41**
Where	1.10	0.68	0–3.00	.31**	.35**
When	0.16	0.33	0–1.83	.15	.18
Why	0.13	0.22	0–1.50	.28*	.07
How-description	1.47	1.17	0–6.50	.30**	.25*
How-evaluation	0.35	0.33	0–1.80	.23*	.17

Note:

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01.

Correlations based on 79 dyads (excluding 2 mother-father-child triads, and 2 dyads in which the child failed to recall any of the events); all correlations .35 and higher remained significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons.