Table 4.

Observed Inhibited Temperament: Path Model Coefficients

Variable	b(SE)	β	t	P	95% CI (b)
DV = T2 maternal anxiety (R2 = .66)
T1 inhibited temperament	0.02 (0.08)	0.02	0.30	.767	[−0.14, 0.18]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.80 (0.06)	0.81	14.14	<001	[0.69, 0.92]
DV = T2 inhibited temperament (R2 = .04)
T1 inhibited temperament	0.21 (0.10)	0.20	2.14	.032	[0.02, 0.39]
T1 maternal anxiety	-0.01 (0.07)	−0.01	−0.09	.931	[−0.14, 0.13]
DV = T2 solicited comforting behavior (R2 = .09)
T1 inhibited temperament	6.20 (2.34)	0.27	2.65	.008	[1.62, 10.79]
T1 maternal anxiety	1.89(1.59)	0.11	−0.97	.236	[−1.23, 5.01]
DV = T3 maternal anxiety (R2 =.81)
Maternal age at birth of child	−0.02 (0.01)	−0.10	−1.96	.050	[−0.03, 0.00]
T1 inhibited temperament	0.02 (0.08)	0.02	0.28	.111	[−0.13, 0.17]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.56 (0.09)	0.57	6.13	<001	[0.38, 0.74]
T2 inhibited temperament	0.00 (0.07)	0.00	0.01	.994	[−0.13, 0.13]
T2 maternal anxiety	0.31 (0.09)	0.31	3.62	<001	[0.14, 0.48]
T2 comforting behavior	0.01 (0.00)	0.16	2.99	.003	[0.003, 0.015]
DV = T3 inhibited temperament (R2 = .19)
T1 inhibited temperament	0.25 (0.13)	0.23	1.91	.056	[−0.01, 0.50]
T1 maternal anxiety	0.02 (0.16)	0.03	0.13	.897	[−0.29, 0.33]
T2 inhibited temperament	0.36(0.10)	0.34	3.63	<001	[0.17, 0.56]
T2 maternal anxiety	0.06 (0.15)	0.08	0.42	.673	[−0.24, 0.36]
T2 comforting behavior	−0.01 (0.01)	−0.13	−1.30	.194	[−0.02, 0.003]
DV = T3 solicited comforting behavior (R2 = .15)
T1 inhibited temperament	0.03 (3.15)	0.00	0.01	.992	[−6.13, 6.20]
T1 maternal anxiety	1.27 (3.98)	0.07	0.25	.749	[−6.52, 9.07]
T2 inhibited temperament	2.79 (2.32)	0.11	1.20	.230	[−1.77, 7.35]
T2 maternal anxiety	−0.12 (3.67)	−0.01	−0.03	.974	[−7.32, 7.08]
T2 comforting behavior	0.35 (0.11)	0.33	3.33	.001	[0.14, 0.56]

Note. The model showed good fit according to chi-square test (χ2[5] = 5.14, p = .399), RMSEA (0.01, 90% CI [0.00, 0.11], CFI(1.00), TLI(1.00), and SRMR(0.02). The correlation was not significant between T1 inhibited temperament and T1 maternal anxiety (r =.12, p = .203). Also modeled were residual correlations between T2 inhibited temperament and T2 maternal anxiety (r = −.03, p = .756), T2 solicited comforting and T2 inhibited temperament (r = .25, p = .002) and T2 maternal anxiety (r = .25, p = .010), T3 inhibited temperament and T3 maternal anxiety (r = .02, p = .891) and T3 solicited comforting with those of T3 inhibited temperament (r = .30, p = .002) and T3 maternal anxiety (r = −.09, p = .450).