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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2016 Feb 11;30(8):887–895. doi: 10.1037/fam0000187

Table 1. Parents Report of Corporal Punishment and Child Externalizing Behaviors and Observed Harsh and Positive Parenting: Correlations and Descriptive Statistics (N = 218 families).

Variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1. Mother's corporal punishment T1
2. Father's corporal punishment T1 .58**
3. Mother' harsh parenting T1 .22** .18**
4. Father's harsh parenting T1 .16* .25** .21**
5. Mother's positive parenting T1 -.10 -.16* -.46** -.14
6. Father's positive parenting T1 -.18* -.23** -.29** -.35** .51**
7. Externalizing behaviors at T1 .30** .21** .14* .14* -.16* -.28**
8. Externalizing behaviors at T2 .21* .32** .17* .13 -.13 -.13 .60**

M 1.87 1.91 6.85 6.54 15.74 16.24 21.14 19.50
SD .72 .79 4.60 4.30 4.21 3.99 10.02 9.79
Range 1 – 4 1 – 4 3 – 26 3 – 25 4 – 27 4 – 26 1 – 50 1 – 50

Note: T1 = Time 1 (age 2), T2 = Time 2 (age 3).

*

p< .05.

**

p< .01 (two-tailed).