Table 3.
Correlations Among Child Care Variables, Maternal Sensitivity, and Adolescent Outcomes
| Maternal sensitivity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child care |
Early childhood |
Middle childhood |
Adolescence | 15-year outcomes |
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| Variable | Hours | Quality | Academic | Externalizing | Impulsivity | |||
| Child care | ||||||||
| Hours | 1.00 | |||||||
| Quality | − .20 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Center | .42 | .18 | ||||||
| Maternal sensitivity | ||||||||
| Early childhood | .04 | .17 | ||||||
| Middle childhood | .03 | .14 | .60 | |||||
| Adolescence | .02 | .06 | .35 | .41 | ||||
| 15-year child outcomes | ||||||||
| Academic/Cognitive Skills | .03 | .23 | .47 | .42 | .20 | |||
| Externalizing | .04 | − .11 | − .11 | − .16 | − .14 | − .07 | ||
| Impulsivity | .12 | − .10 | − .14 | − .25 | − .20 | − .14 | .61 | |
| Risk Taking | .08 | − .13 | − .22 | − .23 | − .18 | − .23 | .50 | .49 |