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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2009 Oct 1;55(4):488–515. doi: 10.1353/mpq.0.0031

Table 2.

Correlations between Utterance Type (by Family Member) and Child Well-being

Recent Independent Recent Family Remote Independent Remote Family
Internalizing Externalizing Internalizing Externalizing Internalizing Externalizing Internalizing Externalizing
Mother
Request −.19 .05 −.24 −.18 .04 −.14 −.21 −.27*
Provide .04 −.19 .15 −.13 −.25 −.24 −.31* −.16
Confirm −.26 −.16 .11 .05 −.22 −.04 −.34** −.15
Negate −.21 −.22 −.18 −.14 −.24 −.33** −.33** −.13
Father
Request −.32* −.31* .14 −.08 −.07 −.09 −.12 .16
Provide −.21 −.16 .19 −.06 .01 −.01 −.20 −.18
Confirm −.07 −.27* .21 −.08 −.01 −.11 −.07 −.17
Negate −.07 .00 −.22 −.02 .13 −.04 .04 −.20
Children
Request −.22 .08 .01 .02 −.08 .03 −.34** −.08
Provide −.26 −.21 .18 −.05 .08 −.04 −.21 −.04
Confirm −.26 −.15 .15 −.11 .06 −.06 −.23 −.07
Negate −.35** −.10 .18 −.04 .04 −.01 −.41** −.32*
*

p < .10,

**

p < .05.