Parent Prediction of Child Mood and Emotional Resilience: The Role of Parental Responsiveness and Psychological Control

Table 1

Means and standard deviations for parent and child ratings of mood and emotional resilience and child rating of parenting behaviours by sex, ethnicity and for total sample.

	Total		Male		Female		Caucasian		Diverse
	𝑛=268		𝑛=132		𝑛=136		𝑛=219		𝑛=49
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Child Rating
Depression symptoms	7.43	7.16	8.07	8.10	6.81	6.07	7.13	6.54	8.75	9.41
Mother responsiveness	4.40	.73	4.41	.73	4.39	.73	4.43	.66	4.25	.98
Mother control	1.83	.78	1.87	.82	1.78	.75	1.77*	.71	2.09*	1.02
Father responsiveness	4.05	.90	4.08	.90	4.03	.90	4.05	.91	4.09	.84
Father control	1.92	.75	2.02*	.81	1.82*	.68	1.87*	.71	2.15*	.88
Total parental responsiveness	8.45	1.40	8.48	1.42	8.42	1.38	8.48	1.37	8.33	1.51
Total parental control	3.75	1.37	3.90	1.46	3.60	1.27	3.64*	1.25	4.24*	1.74
Resilience	134.71	22.44	134.77	22.90	134.65	22.25	130.92	21.67	131.47	22.64
Parent Rating
Child positive affect	53.91	8.73	53.08	9.07	54.72	8.34	53.64	8.69	55.12	8.88
Child negative affect	23.66	7.25	24.34	7.82	23.01	6.62	23.61	7.38	23.92	6.72
Resilience	127.28	22.77	125.84	21.87	128.60	23.71	127.42	22.25	126.71	24.37

* 𝑃<.05