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. 2017 Jan 17;12(1):e0169829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169829

Table 4. Treatment Effects for Global Well-being: Life Satisfaction and Parenting Stress Index.

N (nTREATMENT/ nCONTROL) MTREATMENT (SD) MCONTROL (SD) pa pb pa pb
Unconditional Conditional
Life Satisfaction
Satisfaction with Life as a Parent 100 (45/55) 0.98 (0.15) 0.89 (0.31) 0.126 0.118 0.190 0.160
Satisfaction with Home Life 100 (45/55) 0.96 (0.21) 0.89 (0.31) 0.251 0.234 0.303 0.319
Satisfaction with Life Overall 100 (45/55) 0.93 (0.25) 0.89 (0.31) 0.465 0.477 0.650 0.704
PSI subdomains
Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interactions 99 (45/54) 18.04 (5.44) 17.22 (5.40) 0.402 0.456 0.855 0.735
Difficult Child 94 (43/51) 22.42 (8.34) 22.18 (7.03) 0.944 0.881 0.605 0.697
Parental Distress 100 (45/55) 24.82 (8.39) 24.67 (8.50) 0.907 0.932 0.661 0.548
Total Parental Stress 93 (42/51) 64.52 (18.17) 64.02 (17.95) 0.888 0.894 0.641 0.646
Stress Cut-off 93 (42/51) 0.10 (0.30) 0.08 (0.27) 0.752 0.827 0.601 0.900
Defensive Responding 93 (42/51) 14.76 (5.24) 14.64 (5.05) 0.967 0.972 0.621 0.518
Defensive Responding Cut-off 93 (42/51) 0.24 (0.43) 0.27 (0.45) 0.731 0.694 0.980 0.945

Notes: N’ indicates the sample size. ‘M’ indicates the unconditional mean. ‘SD’ indicates the unconditional standard deviation.

a two-tailed t-test p-value

b two-tailed p-value from an individual permutation test with 100,000 replications.

*** Significant at the 1 percent level.

** Significant at the 5 percent level.

* Significant at the 10 percent level.