Table 2.

Spearman correlations between all study variables

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6. a	7. a
Confounders
1. Child gender	—
2. Educational level mother	−0.00	—
Predictors
3. Total stress cortisol (AUC)	−0.04	−0.05	—
4. Cortisol stress reactivity	0.10	−0.12	0.46***	—
5. Parenting stress	0.05	0.14	−0.02	−0.07	—
Outcomes
6. Externalizing behavior a	0.05	0.00	−0.05	−0.03	0.07	—
7. Internalizing behavior a	0.07	0.06	−0.18+	−0.07	0.14	0.30**	—
8. Prosocial behavior	−0.25**	0.07	0.14	−0.08	−0.20*	−0.40***	−0.42***

AUC, area under the curve (total cortisol concentration).

^aLog transformed.

 ⁺ p < .100, *p < .050, **p < .010, ***p < .001.