Table 2.
Means of ancillary variables for the sharing and bucket condition
| Variable Name | Sharing Condition M (SE) |
Bucket Condition M (SE) |
t (df) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunities to share |
Number of requests |
17.55 (.96) |
18.45 (.91) |
−.68 (38) |
.499 |
| Infants’ visual attention in the sharing game |
Infant Trials | 74% (.035) |
82% (.022) |
−1.50 (31.98) |
.142 |
| Experimenter Trials |
86% (.017) |
85% (.016) |
.25 (38) |
.803 | |
| Positive reinforcement |
E1 positivity | 4.01 (.06) |
4.12 (.08) |
−.96 (38) |
.344 |
| Infant emotional reaction |
2.53 (.13) |
2.59 (.13) |
−.32 (38) |
.752 | |
| Home practice | Total time (minutes) |
52.90 (4.07) |
56.55 (5.80) | −.44 (38) |
.610 |
| Proportion of dyadic sessions |
87.83% (.05) |
86.85% (.04) |
.16 (37) |
.874 | |
| Parental empathy |
Perspective taking |
18.95 (.77) |
20.30 (.82) |
−1.20 (38) |
.238 |
| Empathic concern | 19.15 (.56) |
22.40 (.68) |
−3.67 (38) |
.001 ** | |
| Personal distress | 8.65 (1.06) |
9.20 (1.17) |
−.35 (38) |
.730 | |
| Fantasy | 16.15 (1.00) |
17.65 (.89) |
−1.12 (38) |
.269 |
Note.
**
p < .01.
None of the comparisons yielded statistically significant (p < .05) results except one variable: parents’ empathic concern scores were significantly higher in the bucket condition than in the sharing condition (p = .001), which argues against the explanation that infants in the sharing condition shared more than those in the bucket condition due to their parents having higher dispositional empathy.