Table 2 Bivariate correlations between main variables, age group, gender, and parents’ education.

From: Emotion-specific vocabulary is associated with preschoolers’ emotion knowledge and behavioral emotion regulation

 

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

1. General vocabulary

–

        

Emotion-specific vocabulary

2. Size

0.284***

–

       

3. Depth

0.275***

0.440***

–

      

Emotion knowledge

4. Emotion recognition

0.299***

0.321***

0.455***

–

     

5. Knowledge of ER strategies

0.168*

0.214***

0.218***

0.264***

–

    

Regulation of emotional expressivity

6. Negative

− 0.037

0.002

0.013

0.021

0.003

    

7. Positive

0.047

− 0.044

0.073

0.039

0.088

− 0.057

   

8. Age

0.149*

0.122

0.107

0.245***

0.203**

− 0.094

− 0.097

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9. Gender

− 0.033

− 0.116

− 0.031

− 0.188**

− 0.021

0.036

− 0.135

0.082

 

10. Parents’ education

0.276***

0.104

0.131

0.088

0.006

0.142

− 0.005

0.008

− 0.021

  1. Coding of Gender: 1 = female, 2 = male. Coding of parents’ education: 0 = no parent has a college degree, 1 = at least one parent has a college degree. Two-tailed Pearson correlation coefficients were used for all correlations, except for those involving both regulation of emotional expressivity indices, for which two-tailed Spearman coefficients were used.
  2. *p ≤ .05.
  3. **p ≤ .01.
  4. ***p ≤ .001
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