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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2013 Nov-Dec;34(9):651–660. doi: 10.1097/01.DBP.0000437725.39459.a0

Table 2.

Mother-Father Comparisons of Key Variables in Models

Variable Mothers
Fathers
Interspouse r
M (SD) Range M (SD) Range
Severity child BP 4.12 (2.89) 1–10.90 2.88 (2.94) 0–13.70 .39**
Severity of parent BAP 94.80 (20.73) 61–145 103.35 (18.16) 66–142 .14
Parenting burden 20.20 (9.96) 2–47 19.76 (9.84) 1–44 .38**
Child-referent attributions
 Internal 6.68 (2.11) 3–10 7.04 (1.53) 4–10 .01
 Stable 6.04 (1.91) 2–10 6.08 (1.87) 2–10 .47**
 Controllable 6.68 (1.74) 3–10 6.48 (1.58) 3–9 .48**
Parent-referent attributions
 Internal 5.78 (2.14) 2–10 4.94 (2.01) 2–9 −.09
 Stable 5.48 (1.87) 2–10 5.75 (1.72) 2–10 .38**
 Controllable 5.12 (1.86) 2–10 4.98 (1.67) 2–8 .09

Severity child BP has a scale range of 0 to 40; parent BAP has scale range of 0 to 216; parenting burden has scale range of 0 to 87; and child-referent attributions and parent-referent attributions have scale range of 0 to 10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

M, mean; SD, standard deviation; BP, behavior problems; BAP, broader autism phenotype.