The child's sex most consistently
distinguished social skills group membership: Being a girl was associated with higher levels of social skills development (B = — 1.36, p <.01 for Cooperation; B = — 1.88, p =.01 for Self - Control; B = — 1.56, p <.01 for Assertion) and the child's sex effect gave some indication of distinguishing between the low and moderate group for Assertion (B = — 1.02, p =.04).
The result shown in Table 4 revealed that global parenting quality consistently and significantly
distinguished between the low
group and both the moderately low and high
groups (for Cooperation, B =.11, p <.01, B =.09, p =.01, respectively; for Self - Control, B =.14, p <.01, B =.17, p <.01, respectively; for Assertion, B =.09, p <.01, B =.13, p <.01, respectively), indicating that global quality of parental child care fertilizes all three dimensions of child
social skills.