Parental Catastrophizing Partially Mediates the Association between Parent-Reported Child Pain Behavior and Parental Protective Responses

Table 2

Correlations among study variables and descriptive statistics (𝑛=184).

	1	2	3	4	5	6	M (SD)	Scale
(1) Child age	1.00	.02	.02	−.11	-.01	−.08	13.72 (2.72)	NA
(2) Child gender (M 1, F 2)		1.00	−.02	.18*	.00	−.01	NA	NA
(3) Child current pain			1.00	.04	.02	.04	0.51 (1.46)	0–10
(4) Parent-reported child pain behavior				1.00	.42**	.24**	1.53 (0.66)	0–4
(5) Parental catastrophizing					1.00	.40**	20.55 (10.77)	0–52
(6) Parental protective responses						1.00	22.41 (8.65)	0–52

Note: ^∗𝑃<.05 and ^∗∗𝑃<.01.