. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2017 Mar 19;47:27–39. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.03.003

Table 2.

Correlations between study variables for samples separated by the different gestational age groups

	Mother		Father		Child

	Emotional distress	Quality of attachment	Emotional distress	Quality of attachment	Cognitive	Socio- emotional
Very preterm
Mother quality of attachment	−.42^**
Father emotional distress	.65^**	−.25^*
Father quality of attachment	.03	−.56^**	−.13†
Child cognitive	−.20^*	.07	−.33^**	−.12
Child socio-emotional	.38^**	−.31^**	.42^**	.12	−.29^**
Child motor skills	−.08	.03	−.16^*	.03	.36^**	−.26^**
Late preterm
Mother quality of attachment	−.35^**
Father emotional distress	.27^**	−.22^**
Father quality of attachment	−.08	.08	−.24^**
Child cognitive	−.15^*	.03	.00	.01
Child socio-emotional	.24^**	−.15^*	.04	−.08	−.24^**
Child motor skills	−.04	.08†	.05	.04	.18^**	−.19^**
Full term
Mother quality of attachment	−.41^**
Father emotional distress	.29^**	−.16^**
Father quality of attachment	−.08^**	−.14^**	−.26^**
Child cognitive	−.06^**	.02	−.04^*	.02
Child socio-emotional	.26^**	−.17^**	.13^**	−.04^**	−.18^**
Child motor skills	−.06^**	.05^**	−.05^**	.00	.24^**	−.16^**

^†

p < .10,

p < .05

^**

p < .001