Table 3.

Birth Group moderates the relations between white matter and reading

A. FA	Arc-L nodes 2-10	SLF-L nodes 13-20	SLF-R nodes 1-22

Sex	4.91 (2.67) ^*	3.60 (2.66)	5.26 (2.46) ^*
SES	0.18 (1.65)	.17 (0.10)	0.14 (0.10)
FA	101.48 (33.89) ^**	115.85 (38.96) ^**	140.64 (36.30) ^***
Birth Group	55.51 (21.95) ^*	48.35 (18.58) ^*	72.82 (21.58) ^**
FAxBirth Group	−123.72 (44.74) ^**	−129.12 (44.90) ^**	−167.48 (46.02) ^***

R²	0.27	0.26	0.32
p	0.004	0.0004	<0.0001

B. R1	SLF-L nodes 1-5	UF-R nodes 13-19	ILF-L nodes 20-23

Sex	3.98 (3.01)	4.54 (2.92)	2.90 (3.01)
SES	0.25 (0.14) ^†	0.28 (0.13) ^*	0.20 (0.15)
FA	−5.33 (26.10)	−9.34 (42.53)	−12.15 (46.44)
Birth Group	−84.70 (45.36) ^†	−110.6 (51.91) ^*	−140.1 (66.49) ^*
FAxBirth Group	75.25 (41.46) ^†	130.60 (62.18) ^*	137.37 (66.78) ^*

R²	0.21	0.24	0.23
p	0.046	0.018	0.028

Data are coefficients (SE).

^†

p < 0.1

p < 0.05

^**

p < 0.005

^***

≤ 0.0005