Table 5.

Spearman’s correlations with child’s socioemotional functioning at 6 weeks

Variable	SDQ emotional problems	SDQ conduct problems	SDQ hyperactivity	SDQ peer problems	SDQ prosocial behaviour	SDQ total
Injury talk	0.12	0.07	0.02	0.08	0.22	0.07
Direct injury talk	0.02	0.03	0.12	0.01	0.19	0.03
Indirect injury talk	0.11	0.05	−0.04	0.12	0.19	0.06
Total injury talk with mother	0.02	−0.09	0.07	0.01	0.24	−0.04
Direct injury talk with mother	−0.02	−0.13	0.14	−0.02	0.26*	−0.05
Indirect injury talk with mother	0.00	−0.08	0.00	0.02	0.19	−0.06
Total injury talk with father	−0.12	−0.15	−0.07	−0.03	0.24	−0.16
Direct injury talk with father	−0.14	−0.05	0.03	−0.11	0.27*	−0.14
Indirect injury talk with father	−0.14	−0.19	−0.08	−0.02	0.13	−0.17
Overall injury talk tone	−0.10	−0.03	−0.12	0.11	0.20	−0.07
Mother injury talk tone	−0.26	−0.15	−0.12	−0.19	0.19	−0.25
Father injury talk tone	−0.31	−0.13	−0.30	−0.17	−0.06	−0.32

n=60.

*p<0.05, injury talk presented as percentage of wake time.

SDQ, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.