Table IV.

Final Fitted Regression Models for Predicting the Overall Social Competence of Preschool Children Born Very Preterm.

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Measure	B (SE)	p	B (SE)	P	B (SE)	p
Infant Clinical and Social Background Factors (birth-term)
Family SES	3.76 (1.20)	.002	2.10 (1.16)	.07	0.75 (1.16)	.52
Male sex	11.19 (3.89)	.005	8.23 (3.70)	.03	6.12 (3.59)	.09
Extremely preterm (<28 weeks)	7.25 (4.06)	.08	6.57 (3.76)	.08	8.16 (3.58)	.03
Severity of Neonatal WMA	6.34 (2.93)	.03	4.12 (2.75)	.14	-1.87 (3.10)	.55
Family Functioning and Parenting (discharge-4 years)
Maternal anxiety (2-4 years)	-	-	2.33 (0.64)	<.0001	2.29 (0.61)	<.0001
Parental negative affect and intrusiveness (4 years)	-	-	0.37 (0.13)	.007	0.36 (0.13)	.006
Child Functioning (4 years)
WPPSI-R IQ Score	-	-	-	-	-0.54 (0.15)	.001