Maternal Reading Self-Efficacy Associated with Perceived Barriers to Reading

Table 2

Distribution of reasons that make it hard to read to one’s child.

	Mother-centered reasons
	Too busy	Too tired	Forgot	Total mother-centered reasons
M (SD)	0.23 (0.42)	0.28 (0.45)	0.24 (0.43)	0.76 (1.01)
Range	0-1	0-1	0-1	0–3
	Child-centered reasons
	Baby sick, tired, or fussy	Baby not interested	Baby too squirmy/restless	Total child-centered reasons
M (SD)	0.53 (0.50)	0.44 (0.50)	0.40 (0.49)	1.37 (1.22)
Range	0-1	0-1	0-1	0–3
	Structural reason
	Too many interruptions/distractions
M (SD)	0.32 (0.48)
Range	0–2
	Total barriers
	Sum of mother, child, and structural reasons
M (SD)	2.44 (2.23)
Range	0–7