Young Children’s Risk-Taking: Mothers’ Authoritarian Parenting Predicts Risk-Taking by Daughters but Not Sons

Table 2

Summary of correlational analyses for boys and girls.

	()	()	()	()	()	()	()	()	()	()
(1) IBC	—	.47	−.27	.12	−.10	.01	.43	.18	−.03	−.03
(2) PSAI	.15	—	.02	.13	−.10	.12	.21	.18	−.13	.03
(3) Mother femininity	.21	.15	—	−.07	.56	.46	−.37	−.19	.06	−.29
(4) Mother masculinity	−.10	.14	−.12	—	.12	.13	−.02	−.20	.01	.07
(5) Mother androgyny	.25	.15	.53	.20	—	.25	−.23	−.06	.13	−.17
(6) Authoritative PS	.21	.14	.34	.05	.13	—	−.25	−.11	.02	−.05
(7) Authoritarian PS	−.01	.41	−.34	.28	−.01	−.16	—	.52	.03	.04
(8) Permissive PS	−.06	−.07	−.01	.40	.45	−.02	.36	—	−.07	.03
(9) Age	−.11	.41	−.06	.01	.10	.24	−.17	−.07	—	.21
(10) Family income	.02	.03	−.27	.11	.12	−.17	.22	.20	.25	—

Note. Lower half of the matrix displays correlations for boys and the upper half, for girls. PSAI = Preschool Activities Inventory (higher numbers reflect more engagement in masculine activities by children); IBC = Injury Behavior Checklist (higher numbers reflect more risk-taking); , , and .