Does Mother Know Best? Maternal Knowledge Calibration Predicts Children’s Oral Language Development

Table 2

Hierarchical regression analysis of mothers’ knowledge calibration predicting their children’s listening comprehension (𝑛 = 49 dyads).

Step	𝐵^a	Standard error	𝑡-value	𝑃 value	sr^2b
Step  1
Maternal education	1.21	0.75	1.61	0.118	0.08
Step  2
Maternal education	1.59	0.64	2.47	0.020	0.14
Proportion of accurate assertions expressed with certainty	9.71	3.22	3.02	0.005	0.20
Proportion of incorrect assertions expressed with uncertainty	7.04	2.50	2.82	0.009	0.18

aUnstandardized regression coefficient.
^bSquared semipartial correlation.