The negative expressivity trajectory marginally inversely predicted first-grade passage comprehension, significantly so only for children with lower kindergarten passage comprehension¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q2
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q2 i? The slope of negative expressivity inversely predicted G1 passage comprehension at a marginal level (b2 = −147.867, p = .06). → Hernández 2018 q2 i? The slope was negatively associated with G1 passage comprehension for children 1 SD below the mean in K passage comprehension (b2 = −309.79, p < .001) but not for children at or above the mean. → Hernández 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Hernández 2018¶

Hernández, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Thompson, M. S., Spinrad, T. L., Grimm, K. J., VanSchyndel, S. K., Berger, R. H., Silva, K. M., Pina, A. A., Southworth, J., & Gal, D. E. (2018). Trajectories of the Expression of Negative Emotion from Kindergarten to First Grade: Associations with Academic Outcomes. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000213

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Growth model predicting G1 Woodcock-Johnson passage comprehension, controlling for K passage comprehension and covariates (N = 301). The article reports the slope "inversely predicted passage comprehension at a marginally significant level."

"The linear slope of negative expressivity inversely predicted passage comprehension at a marginally significant level (b2 = −147.867, p = .06; see Model 3a, Table 4)."

Hernández 2018 (2)¶

Hernández, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Thompson, M. S., Spinrad, T. L., Grimm, K. J., VanSchyndel, S. K., Berger, R. H., Silva, K. M., Pina, A. A., Southworth, J., & Gal, D. E. (2018). Trajectories of the Expression of Negative Emotion from Kindergarten to First Grade: Associations with Academic Outcomes. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000213

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Simple-slopes analysis of the significant slope × K passage comprehension interaction (b23 = 7.36, p = .01) from latent moderated structural modeling. The association held only for children with lower K passage comprehension.

"The negative expressivity slope was negatively associated with passage comprehension in G1 for children with lower passage comprehension in K (1 SD below the mean; b2 = −309.79, p < .001; see Figure 5b), but not for children with average (0 SD; b2 = −155.73, p = .14) or higher passage comprehension in K (1 SD above the mean; b2 = −1.68, p = .99)."

Discussion¶

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