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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2016 Sep 5;52(11):1805–1819. doi: 10.1037/dev0000165

Table 2.

Zero-order correlations between primary and alternative caregiver reports of DC behavior and behavior problems scores at ages 2 and 3 and primary caregiver, alternative caregiver, and teacher reports of aggressive and rule-breaking behavior at age 9.5

Age 9.5 outcomes across informants
Aggressive behavior Rule-breaking

PC AC T PC AC T
Age 2
DC behavior (PC) .14** .08* .06 .16*** .06 .05
DC behavior (AC) .14** .14 .03 .13* .12* .04
Behavior problems (PC) .24*** .16*** .05 .21*** .09* .08
Behavior problems (AC) .13** .13 .02 .09* .09 .004

Age 3
DC behavior (PC) .31*** .18*** .06 .27*** .16*** .04
DC behavior (AC) .21*** .17*** .08 .18** .17*** .05
Behavior problems (PC) .35*** .13* .05 .31*** .10* .05
Behavior problems (AC) .19*** .21** .06 .15** .18** .02

Age 9.5
Aggressive behavior (PC)
Aggressive behavior (AC) .34***
Aggressive behavior (T) .14** .08
Rule-breaking behavior (PC) .74*** .29*** .16***
Rule-breaking behavior (AC) .26*** .71*** .09* .33***
Rule-breaking behavior (T) .13* .08* .71*** .20*** .11*

Note.

p < .10,

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

PC = primary caregiver; AC = alternative caregiver; CU = callous unemotional; DC = deceitful-callous. Pattern of findings for age 4 DC behavior and behavior problems with outcomes at age 9.5 were similar to those for age 3. Thus, these findings are not presented for brevity, but available on request. Note that inter-correlations between DC behavior and behavior problems from ages 2–4 have been reported in a previous study (see Hyde et al., 2013). Fisher r-to-z transformations showed that correlations with aggressive and rule-breaking behavior at age 9.5 were significantly greater in magnitude for age 3 DC behavior than age 2 DC behavior within primary caregiver informant reports (range, z = −2.2 – 3.43, p < .001) and for primary caregiver predicting alternative caregiver reports (range, z = 1.93 – 1.94, p < .05).