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Table 4--continued
Child Category K P
Laugh .66 .85 Praise (total)b .66 .84 No Opportunity for Compliance .65 .92 Physical Positive .65 .40 Noncompliance .61 .92 Criticism" .61 .74 No Answer .61 .67 Indirect Command .60 .83 Behavioral Description .60 .58 Fair
Unlabeled Praise" .49 .64 Poor
Destructive' .09 .88 Labeled Praise" ** .00 Note. Analyses based on N= 104 5-minute coding intervals, including the clinic-referred group (nj = 47 coding intervals) and the comparison group (n = 57 coding intervals); Coded only for the clinic-referred group; b Coded only for the comparison group (Negative Talk= Criticism/Smart Talk; Praise Total= Unlabeled Praise/Labeled Praise/Contingent Praise).
** Kappa could not be calculated due to insufficient data.
The remaining hypotheses of the study, which were related to the validity of the DPICS II, involved summary variables comprised of combinations of the individual