Table 5.

Correlations among parents’ country of birth, language ability (VQ), ToM Storybooks and TEC scores, after controlling for age.

	N	VQ	ToM Scores	EU Scores
Total sample	118
Parents’ country of birth		0.113	0.101	0.125
VQ		–	0.503∗∗	0.406∗∗
ToM scores			–	0.347∗∗
Native-born parents	106
VQ		–	0.489∗∗	0.380∗∗
ToM scores			–	0.307∗∗
Foreign-born parents	12
VQ		–	0.665∗	0.820∗∗
ToM scores			–	0.598∗

Pearson correlation (Two-tailed): ^∗p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01.