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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2015 Oct 1;142:274–290. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.08.011

Table 1.

Means and standard deviations for variables

Minimum Maximum M SD ttwin tsex
Maternal negative affecta 2.79 46.00 22.74 9.93 0.76 0.80
Overanxious behavior 0.00 0.83 0.32 0.18 −0.54 −0.32
Morning cortisol −3.38 0.08 −1.17 0.48 0.12 −1.26
Afternoon cortisol −3.29 −0.86 −2.49 0.45 −0.14 0.37
Evening cortisol −4.66 −1.26 −3.38 0.68 −0.05 1.74
Baseline frontal asymmetry −0.12 0.09 0.01b 0.04 0.55 3.35**
Stranger script frontal asymmetry −0.18 0.24 0.02 0.07 −0.39 3.22**
Stranger conversation frontal asymmetry −0.18 0.14 0.01 0.06 −0.51 1.82
Experimenter conversation frontal asymmetry −0.16 0.11 0.01 0.06 −1.05 0.48
Slopes of change in cortisol −2.05 0.76 −1.11 0.46 −0.10 1.95
Slopes of change in frontal asymmetry −0.04 0.08 0.01 0.02 0.62 4.34**

Note: N = 98, Variables are on separate scales and are not intended for comparisons across measures or collection methods. ttwin is the result of an independent-samples t-test conducted to test for twin differences in variables. tsex is the result of an independent-samples t-test conducted to test for sex differences in variables.

a

Imputation models do not force imputed scores into an interval scale, which occasionally results in a subset of values that are not whole numbers. We prefer to use the true imputed values rather than rounding to the nearest whole number.

b

Values are truncated to two decimal places for presentation purposes. However, given the small scale of the EEG data, asymmetry values included 14 decimal places for analyses.