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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2008 Jan 10;9(1):17–27. doi: 10.1007/s11121-007-0080-7

Table 2. Daily Rates of Positive Reinforcement, Discipline, and Proportion Positive Reinforcement and Effect Sizes.

Full sample Intervention group Control group

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
a

Cohen's d = .29;

b

Cohen's d = .26.