Table 3.

Parent–child MRO (7 months to age 10), security (age 8 to 10), and parental power assertion (15 months to age 6 ½) and child skin conductance level (age 8) as predictors of externalizing behavior problems at age 8–10

Relationship:	Outcome Measures: Children’s Externalizing Problems, Age 8–10
	M/F-Rated				Self-Reported
	Mother-Child		Father-Child		Father-Child		Father-Child
	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta	F	Beta	F
Child Gender	0.25	4.49*	0.08	<1	0.03	<1	0.09	<1
Mother Education	0.02	<1	−0.06	<1	−0.07	<1	−0.12	1.26
Father Education	−0.16	2.03	−0.14	1.51	0.12	1.12	0.12	1.07
MRO	−0.14	<1	−0.55	9.61***	0.13	<1	0.09	<1
Security	−0.02	<1	0.01	<1	−0.28	2.91+	−0.53	12.50****
Power Assertion	0.35	4.52*	0.15	1.05	0.51	9.84***	0.33	5.16*
SCL	−0.10	<1	−0.02	<1	−0.13	1.34	−0.03	<1
MRO × SCL	−0.10	<1	0.37	5.69**	0.00	<1	0.04	<1
Security × SCL	0.25	1.78	0.13	<1	−0.07	<1	0.16	1.24
Power × SCL	−0.31 R2=0.34	4.59*	0.05 R2=0.38	<1	−0.16 R2=0.34	1.24	0.07 R2=0.39	<1
	F(10,62)=3.18***		F(10,61)=3.73***		F(10,62)=3.20***		F(10,61)=3.84****

⁺p<0.10.

^*p<0.05.

^**p<0.025.

^***p<0.01.

^****p<0.001.

SCL Skin Conductance Level. For all equations, the final step, with all predictors entered, is presented. MRO, security, and power assertion are for the given parent–child relationship