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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 2.

Bivariate correlations among the primary variables

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Maternal negative affect
2. Overanxious behavior	0.02
3. Morning cortisol	−0.45^**	−0.05
4. Afternoon cortisol	−0.17	0.12	0.16
5. Evening cortisol	0.35	0.28^**	−0.24^*	0.42^**
6. Baseline frontal asymmetry	−0.26^*	−0.12	−0.05	−0.09	−0.10
7. Stranger script frontal asymmetry	−0.43^**	−0.05	0.09	−0.01	0.09	0.63^**
8. Stranger conversation frontal asymmetry	−0.31^**	−0.07	0.08	0.02	0.02	0.63^**	0.77^**
9. Experimenter conversation frontal asymmetry	−0.32^**	−0.15	−0.11	−0.02	−0.02	0.59^**	0.72^**	0.75^**
10. Slopes of change in cortisol	0.49^**	0.23^*	−0.70	0.23^*	0.86^**	−0.05	0.02	−0.03	0.04
11. Slopes of change in frontal asymmetry	0.29^*	−0.13	−0.19	−0.09	−0.24^*	−0.33^**	−0.64^**	−0.34^**	0.06	0.10

Note: N = 98,

p < 0.05,

^**

p < 0.01.