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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2017 Feb 10;88(6):2060–2078. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12730

Table 2.

Measures of Joint Attention Low and High Joint Attention (JA) Dyads

whole sample correlation with age Low JA High JA low-high comparison

overall
% of time 39.24 (12.07) 0.295* 28.08 (8.06) 48.41 (4.85) t(49)=10.61
p<.001, d=3.03
frequency (rate/min) 9.44 (2.19) 0.246 7.82 (1.55) 10.76 (1.70) t(49) =6.45
p < .001, d = 1.84
duration (msec) 2.38 (0.53) 0.199 2.02 (0.434) 2.68 (0.44) t(49) = 5.49
p < .001, d = 1.56

mutual gaze
% of time 5.74 (4.56) 0.093 4.27 (4.05) 4.92 (6.62) t(49) = 0.72, n.s.
frequency (rate/min) 1.78 (1.28) 0.06 1.37 (0.96) 1.81 (1.43) t(49)= 0.93, n.s.
duration (msec) 2.44 (0.68) −0.02 1.54 (0.69) 1.65 (0.73) t(49) = 0.78, n.s.

JA to object
% of time 34.72 (4.56) −0.092 23.82 (7.68) 41.76 (6.90) t(49) = 8.94
p<.001, d=2.55
frequency (rate/min) 7.66 (1.65) 0.212 6.45 (1.41) 8.65 (1.07) t(49) = 5.09
p<.001, d=1.45
duration (msec) 1.68 (0.71) 0.42 1.99 (0.46) 2.82 (0.61) t(49) =5.77
p<.001, d=1.65
*

p<0.05