Rearing Styles, Parents' Attachment Mental State,and Children's Social Abilities: The Link to Peer Acceptance

Table 3

Logistic regressions (forward stepwise) considering the three children’s peer status as dependent variables (DV; both for maternal and paternal interactive styles) having as independent variables the parental interactive categories (positive behaviour, negative behaviour, control patterns, neutral conversation, correcting, and disconfirming), the three children’s behavioural orientations at school (prosocial, aggression and isolation), and the parent attachment internal working model (secure versus insecure).

Steps in the equation for each DV	𝐵	Improvement			Model			Nagel-kerke
		𝜒^2	df	𝑃	𝜒^2	df	𝑃	𝑅^2
Maternal iteractive styles
DV popular
(1) Aggression	−.308	6.043	1	.014	6.043	1	.014	.218
(2) Control Patterns	−1.101	5.133	1	.023	11.176	2	.004	.375
DV rejected
(1) Disconfirming	1.74	8.734	1	.003	8.734	1	.003	.341
(2) Secure	−2.43	5.059	1	.024	13.793	2	.001	.502
DV average
(1) Isolation	−1.472	9.994	1	.002	9.994	1	.002	.356
Paternal interactive styles
DV popular
(1) Control patterns	−.514	7.925	1	.005	7.925	1	.005	.285
(2) Aggression	−.872	4.100	1	.043	12.025	2	.002	.408
DV rejected
(1) Secure	−2.351	6.039	1	.014	6.039	1	.014	.250
DV average
(1) Isolation	−1.407	9.036	1	.003	9.036	1	.003	.339