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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2019 Feb 7;33(5):532–541. doi: 10.1037/fam0000511

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and correlations among variables

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1. Sensitivity to cues .07 .10** .14** .16** −.01 .08 .04 −.01 .02 −.02
2. Response to child’s distress .20** .11** .20** .08* −.03 −.05 −.04 .05 −.04 .07
3. Socioemotional growth fostering .00 −.05 .12** .23** .10* .07 .06 .05 −.06 .03
4. Cognitive growth fostering .48** .14** .23** .18** .08 .02 .04 .12** −.08 −.01
5. Marital adjustment .10* .03 .15** .17** 1.00 .56** −.15** .03 −.02 .03
6. Parent positive affect .03 .03 .03 .12** .69** .87** −.20** −.02 .02 .08
7. Parent negative affect −.05 −.04 .02 −.02 −.19** −.21** .89** −.04 .03 −.05
8. Child inhibitory control .05 .08 .00 .07 .11* .10* −.05 .49** −.34** −.24**
9. Child positive temperament −.05 .06 −.04 .03 .06 .05 −.04 −.31** .51** .05
10. Child negative temperament .02 .05 .06 −.07 .00 −.07 .04 −.22** .00 .45**

Mother Behaviors and Reports of Child Temperament
Mean 9.37 9.22 8.29 13.53 5.35 4.72 1.02 4.38 5.25 4.29
Standard Deviation 1.08 1.73 1.32 1.83 0.63 .67 .19 0.82 0.54 0.65
N 723 935 890 740 749 749 749 692 692 692

Father Behaviors and Reports of Child Temperament
Mean 9.06 9.01 8.02 13.22 5.35 4.56 1.02 4.30 5.15 4.24
Standard Deviation 1.22 1.81 1.48 2.08 0.63 .67 .19 0.78 0.50 0.58
N 545 760 711 555 749 749 749 629 629 629

Note:

***

p < .001

**

p < .01

*

p < .05.

Mother correlations are above the diagonal, father correlations are below the diagonal, and cross-parent correlations are bolded on the diagonal.