TABLE 5.
Standardized regression coefficients of the path analyses for younger (N = 310) and older (N = 267) children.
| Language T2 | Math T2 | Soc-emotional T2 | ||||
| young | old | young | old | young | old | |
| Language time 1 | 0.39*** (0.08) | 0.36*** (0.08) | 0.34*** (0.09) | 0.16 (0.09) | 0.15* (0.06) | 0.23* (0.11) |
| Math time 1 | 0.02 (0.06) | 0.12 (0.09) | 0.06 (0.07) | 0.41*** (0.09) | 0.02 (0.06) | −0.28** (0.10) |
| Socio-emotional time 1 | 0.20** (0.07) | 0.19** (0.07) | 0.17* (0.07) | 0.11 (0.06) | 0.49*** (0.05) | 0.53*** (0.09) |
| Gender | −0.12* | −0.06 | −0.08 | 0.02 | −0.09* | −0.14 |
| Age in months time 1 | 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.14* | 0.06 | −0.14* | −0.15 |
| Time between wave 1 and 2 | 0.05 | −0.06 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.02 | −0.10 |
| Non-Western immigrant | −0.07 | −0.05 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.06 |
| Maternal education (1 = high) | −0.01 | −0.06 | −0.02 | −0.06 | 0.04 | −0.06 |
| Paternal education (1 = high) | −0.03 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.14* | −0.09 | 0.19** |
| Home learning environment | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.08 | −0.04 | −0.00 |
| Explained variance (CD) | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.35 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.43 |
| LR test χ2 (81) | 147.25 p < 0.001 | 152.53 p < 0.001 | 145.85 p < 0.001 | |||
| Model fit (AIC/BIC) | 6097.10 | 5444.10 | 6105.74 | 5532.30 | 6164.98 | 5181.22 |
| 6377.34 | 5695.20 | 6385.98 | 5783.41 | 6445.22 | 5432.33 | |
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.