Table 6.

Model 4: Hierarchical Regression Predicting Girls’ Externalizing Behavior With Mothers’ Frequency of Use of Verbal Punishment as Predictor and Mother-reported Warmth as Moderator

Predictors	Girls’ Externalizing Behavior
	B	SE	β	R2	ΔR2	F(df)
Step 1
Mothers’ Frequency of Verbal Punishment	4.484*	.936	.543	.294	.294	22.950(1,55)*
Step 2
Mothers’ Frequency of Verbal Punishment	4.172*	.940	.505	.329	.035	13.324(2,54)*
Mother-reported Warmth	−6.965	4.180	−.190
Step 3
Mothers’ Frequency of Verbal Punishment	4.068*	.871	.492	.436	.107	13.634(3,53)*
Mother-reported Warmth	−7.581	3.874	−.206
Mothers’ Frequency of Verbal Punishment X Mother-reported Warmth	12.466*	3.939	.327

Note.

^*p < .00625.