Internationally Adopted Children from Non-European Countries: General Development during the First Two Years in the Adoptive Family

Table 3

Correlation and partial correlation between scores at time of adoption and at age two.

	Correlation r	Partial correlation^1    𝑟ab.c
Communication	.145	.368^***
Gross motor	.164	.251^**
Physically chal. behavior	.471^***	.501^***
Non-physically chal. B.	.432^***	.496^***
Emotionality	.688^***	.691^***
Activity	.430^**	.462^***
Shyness	.517^***	.507^***

Note. ¹Controlling for age at adoption.
^***𝑃<.001, ^**𝑃<.01, ^*𝑃<.05.