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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2016 Dec 5;58(3):282–291. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12666

Table 4.

Effects of early fearlessness and parenting on child callous-unemotional, attention-deficit, and oppositional behaviors.

Within three-factor model (Figure 1)

Attention-deficit
behaviors
Oppositional
behaviors
Callous-
unemotional
behaviors
All paths examined
simultaneously
B (SE) β B (SE) β B (SE) β

Covariates (18 or 24 months)

Child race .01 (.14) .003 .13 (.14) .06 −.03 (.16) −.01
Family income .004 (.12) .002 −.14 (.11) −.08 −.04 (.13) −.02
Neighborhood risk .04 (.08) .04 .04 (.07) .04 .06 (.08) .05
Maternal low empathy .001 (.01) −.002 −.03 (.02) −.11 .04 (.02) .14*
Maternal aggressive traits .06 (.03) .17* .10 (.03) .27*** .08 (.03) .21**

Main effects (24 months)

Child fearlessness .06 (.08) .06 .06 (.08) .05 −.06 (.09) −.06
Harsh parenting −.01 (.02) −.02 −.02 (.02) −.04 −.04 (.02) −.11
Positive parenting −.09 (.04) −.16* −.07 (.04) −.12 −.10 (.04) −.17*

Interactions (24 months)

Child fearlessness × harsh
parenting
.04 (.02) .11 .01 (.02) .03 (.07) −.01 (.04) −.02
Child fearlessness × positive
parenting
−.04 (.04) −.07 −.06 (.04) −.12 (.08) −.16 (.06) −.28**

Note.

p<.10,

*

p< .05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001.