Table 6.

Spearman’s correlations with child’s socioemotional functioning at 3 months

Variable	SDQ emotional problems	SDQ conduct problems	SDQ hyperactivity	SDQ peer problems	SDQ prosocial behaviour	SDQ total
Injury talk	−0.20	−0.06	−0.20	−0.51*	0.06	−0.29
Direct injury talk	−0.36*	0.07	−0.26	−0.38*	−0.01	−0.31
Indirect injury talk	−0.15	−0.15	−0.17	−0.55*	0.09	−0.29
Total injury talk with mother	−0.03	−0.18	−0.29	−0.40*	0.23	−0.29
Direct injury talk with mother	−0.06	−0.18	−0.30	−0.22	0.18	−0.28
Indirect injury talk with mother	−0.10	−0.17	−0.23	−0.49*	0.27	−0.31
Total injury talk with father	−0.18	−0.44*	−0.23	−0.18	0.37*	−0.33
Direct injury talk with father	−0.26	−0.34	−0.31	−0.14	0.31	−0.33
Indirect injury talk with father	−0.13	−0.50*	−0.14	−0.19	0.32	−0.30
Overall tone	−0.16	0.07	−0.19	−0.06	0.23	−0.15
Mother tone	0.09	−0.16	−0.21	−0.25	0.56*	−0.17
Father tone	0.05	0.24	−0.11	−0.08	−0.08	0.00

n=32.

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

SDQ, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.