Table 3.

Predicting 24-mo Negative Affect from 24-mo Maternal Behaviors and 5-mo Infant Frontal EEG Asymmetry

	B (SE)	t	CI95%
child sex	.02 (.05)	.48	−.07 – .12
maternal education	−.12 (.06)	−2.06*	−.24 – −.01
maternal age at birth	−.04 (.06)	−.75	−.15 – .07
5-mo negative affect	.33 (.05)	6.51**	.23 – .43
5-mo EEG asymmetry	.09 (.05)	1.75++	−.01 – .19
24-mo maternal sensitivity	.16 (.14)	1.20	−.10 – .43
24-mo maternal intrusiveness	.35 (.12)	2.87**	.11 – .58
24-mo maternal sensitivity × 5-mo EEG asymmetry	−.26 (.12)	−2.09*	−.49 – −.02
24-mo maternal intrusiveness × 5-mo EEG asymmetry	−.20 (.11)	−1.77+	−.42 – .02

Notes: χ² (9) = 77.91^**, R2 = .25^**; N = 320. Coefficients are standardized. Child sex was coded as Male = 1 and Female = 0; 5-mo EEG asymmetry was coded Right Frontal = 0 and Left Frontal = 1; maternal education was coded from 0= Did not complete High School to 4 = Graduate School

⁺⁺p = .079,

⁺p = .077,

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01