Maternal Reading Self-Efficacy Associated with Perceived Barriers to Reading

Table 3

Reading self-efficacy predicting reasons that make it hard to read to one’s child (odds ratio).

	Mother-centered barriers			Child-centered barriers			Structural barrier
	Too busy	Too tired	Forgot	Sick, tired, or fussy	Not interested	Too squirmy/restless	Too many interruptions/distractions
Maternal reading self-efficacy	0.570^*	0.545^**	0.675	0.615^*	0.505^**	0.485^***	0.644^*

Note: Exponentiated coefficients; covariates include receipt of public assistance, married/living as married, prenatal substance use, education, race, and mother's age; ^* < 0.05;^** < 0.01; ^*** < 0.001.