Maternal Emotional Intelligence and the Provision of Child Motor Affordances
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Procedure
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Emotional Intelligence
2.2.2. Motor Affordances
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Participant Characteristics
3.2. Mother’s EI and Motor Affordances
4. Discussion
5. Limitations
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Max. | Min. | ±SD | Mean | |
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20 | 6 | 2.576 | 13.72 | AHEMD |
4 | 1 | 0.805 | 3.07 | Outside space |
4 | 1 | 0.401 | 3.92 | Inside space |
4 | 1 | 1.073 | 2.86 | Variety of stimulation |
4 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.96 | Fine motor toys |
4 | 1 | 1.087 | 1.90 | Gross motor toys |
433 | 217 | 36.741 | 327.27 | EI |
90 | 42 | 7.566 | 62.53 | Adaptability |
146 | 66 | 14.582 | 108.39 | Intrapersonal |
89 | 23 | 8.906 | 71.45 | Interpersonal |
60 | 14 | 6.738 | 46.14 | General mood |
60 | 15 | 7.66 | 38.75 | Stress management |
EI | Stress Management | General Mood | Intrapersonal | Interpersonal | Adaptability | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
r | p | r | p | r | p | r | p | r | p | r | p | |
AHEMD | 0.14 ** | 0.000 | 0.16 ** | 0.001 | 0.10 * | 0.036 | 0.12 ** | 0.009 | - | - | 0.14 ** | 0.004 |
Variety of stimulation | 0.12 * | 0.014 | - | - | 0.10 * | 0.041 | - | - | 0.15 ** | 0.001 | 0.10 * | 0.035 |
Inside space | 0.14 ** | 0.003 | - | - | - | - | 0.11 ** | 0.013 | 0.15 ** | 0.001 | 0.11 * | 0.020 |
F + GMT | 0.09 * | 0.049 | 0.12 ** | 0.009 | - | - | 0.11 * | 0.022 | - | - | 0.11 * | 0.021 |
Outside space | - | - | 0.09 * | 0.050 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Durbin Watson | Sig. | F | Adj. R2 | R2 Square | Sig. | β-Coefficient | Coefficient B | Dependent | Independent Variable | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | ||||||||||
2.00 | 0.002 | 11.74 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.002 | 0.16 | 0.010 | AHEMD | EI |
1.99 | 0.003 | 9.09 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.003 | 0.14 | 0.002 | Inside space | EI |
1.86 | 0.011 | 6.07 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.12 | 0.011 | 0.12 | 0.003 | Variety of stimulation | EI |
1.94 | 0.024 | 5.41 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 0.024 | 0.11 | 0.003 | Fine motor toy | EI |
Durbin Watson | Sig. | F | Adj. R2 | R2 Square | Sig. | β-Coefficient | Coefficient B | Variables | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1.90 | 0.001 | 39.47 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.29 | 0.001 | 0.29 | 0.448 | PA | Model 1 |
0.001 | 31.22 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.36 | 0.001 | 0.25 | 0.388 | PA + income | Model 2 | |
0.21 | 0.597 | |||||||||
0.001 | 24.03 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.38 | 0.001 | 0.26 | 0.398 | PA + income + age | Model 3 | |
0.18 | 0.524 | |||||||||
0.13 | 0.055 | |||||||||
0.001 | 20.35 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.4 | 0.001 | 0.24 | 0.376 | PA + income + age + EI | Model 4 | |
0.17 | 0.493 | |||||||||
0.13 | 0.054 | |||||||||
0.12 | 0.008 |
Parsimonious | Comparative | Absolute | Fit Indices | |||
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AGFI | NFI | CFI | GFI | RMSEA | CMTN/DF | |
0/96 | 0/93 | 0/95 | 0/99 | 0/06 | 2/71 | Confirmed |
Observed Values |
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Valadi, S.; Gabbard, C.; Sadrolsadati, S.S.; Elyasi, M. Maternal Emotional Intelligence and the Provision of Child Motor Affordances. Children 2022, 9, 1442. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101442
Valadi S, Gabbard C, Sadrolsadati SS, Elyasi M. Maternal Emotional Intelligence and the Provision of Child Motor Affordances. Children. 2022; 9(10):1442. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101442
Chicago/Turabian StyleValadi, Saeed, Carl Gabbard, Saeedeh Sadat Sadrolsadati, and Marzieh Elyasi. 2022. "Maternal Emotional Intelligence and the Provision of Child Motor Affordances" Children 9, no. 10: 1442. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101442