Young Children’s Risk-Taking: Mothers’ Authoritarian Parenting Predicts Risk-Taking by Daughters but Not Sons

Table 3

Summary of multiple regression results with authoritarian parenting style and children’s PSAI predicting risk-taking for girls and boys.

		Girls			Boys
Predictors		SE	β		SE	β
Intercept	18.00	7.02	—	45.15	12.61	—
Authoritarian parenting style	.80	.29		−.04	.30
PSAI	.43	.13		.17	.16	.15
Adjusted	.31			0.03

Note. PSAI = Preschool Activities Inventory (higher numbers reflect more engagement in masculine activities by children); .