Table 2. Daily Rates of Positive Reinforcement, Discipline, and Proportion Positive Reinforcement and Effect Sizes.
Full sample | Intervention group | Control group | ||||
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M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Baseline | ||||||
Positive reinforcement | 0.96 | 0.55 | 1.01 | 0.57 | 0.91 | 0.53 |
Discipline | 1.27 | 1.18 | 1.31 | 1.24 | 1.22 | 1.13 |
Proportion positive reinforcement | 0.53 | 0.27 | 0.53 | 0.27 | 0.52 | 0.27 |
Mean number of child problem behaviors/day | 5.85 | 4.10 | 5.92 | 4.26 | 5.77 | 3.93 |
Termination | ||||||
Positive reinforcement | 0.98 | 0.57 | 1.06 | 0.60 | 0.88 | 0.53 |
Discipline | 1.14 | 1.12 | 1.06 | 1.13 | 1.24 | 1.20 |
Proportion positive reinforcementa | 0.56 | 0.28 | 0.60 | 0.28 | 0.52 | 0.28 |
Mean number of child problem behaviors/dayb | 4.87 | 4.06 | 4.37 | 3.91 | 5.44 | 4.15 |
Cohen's d = .29;
Cohen's d = .26.