Kindergarten level, but not trajectory, of negative expressivity predicted lower teacher-reported academic skills in first grade¶

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q2 i? The negative expressivity intercept predicted lower G1 academic skills (b1 = −3.149, p = .02), while the linear slope did not. → Hernández 2018

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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 teacher-reported G1 academic skills, controlling for K academic skills and covariates (N = 301). The article reports "the negative expressivity intercept (but not linear slope) predicted lower academic skills in G1."

"In this model, the negative expressivity intercept (but not linear slope) predicted lower academic skills in G1 (b1 = −3.149, p = .02; see Figure 4)."

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