Table 2.

Bivariate correlations between mothers’ and co-parents’ parent–child communication and predictor variables

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Mothers
1. Six month parent–child communication	1.0
2. Parenting alliance	.35***	1.0
3. Primary appraisals	−.19*	.03	1.0
4. Secondary appraisals	.20**	.02	−.55***	1.0
5. Baseline parent–child communication	.80***	.31**	−.21**	−.15	1.0
Co-parents
6. Six month parent–child communication	.38**	.30**	−.18*	−.001	.07	1.0
7. Parenting alliance	.29**	.53***	−.14	−.07	−.08	.54***	1.0
8. Primary appraisals	−.12	.13	.62***	−.25**	−.06	−.10	−.09	1.0
9. Secondary appraisals	.15	.004	−.41***	.17	−.05	.24**	.17*	−.50***	1.0
10. Baseline parent–child communication	.37***	.21**	−.22**	.03	.21**	.77***	.50***	−.15	.21**	1.0

^***p < 0.01;

^**p < 0.05;

^*p < 0.10