Preschool teacher attachment and attention skills

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Table 2 Mean comparisons with AQS security as an independent variable and attention and concentration battery scores as the dependent variables

Measures	More secure children		Less secure children		t	*95% CI*
	M	SD	M	SD		LL	UL
Reaction time
Correct	27.93	4.59	29.38	1.09	-1.59	-3.24	.35
Time	.45	.24	.29	.26	2.94*	.05	.26
Speed and accuracy
Correct	8.20	9.77	4.62	6.02	1.79	-.37	7.54
Time	.71	.75	.71	.79	-.02	-.33	.32
Auditory recognition
Correct	7.54	1.70	6.77	1.70	2.08*	.03	1.50
Time	.87	.30	1.11	.29	-3.67**	-.36	-.11
Visual recognition
Correct	7.94	1.60	6.85	2.55	2.76*	.31	1.87
Time	.73	.18	.81	.35	-1.79	-.18	.008
Visual spatial recognition
Correct	8.83	2.62	7.42	2.87	2.42*	.25	2.55
Time	.61	.19	.70	.24	-1.95	-.17	.0010
Digit span –forward	1.32	3.42	.85	1.37	.69	-.88	1.82
Digit span backward	.36	.73	.20	.50	.85	-.17	.43
Divided attention
Correct	5.90	2.42	3.85	2.85	3.77**	.97	3.13
Time	.95	.38	.81	.47	1.52	-.03	.30
Multiple search letter
Correct	5.98	2.89	6.88	2.51	-1.46	-2.11	.31
Time	104.81	64.80	161.51	64.76	-4.02**	-84.57	-28.82
Multiple search simbol
Correct	4.50	2.97	4.58	3.22	-.12	-1.38	1.21
Time	116.53	70.39	162.05	56.07	-3.07**	-74.77	-16.27

Note: correct: correct answers score; time: response times score; CI = confidence interval of the difference; LL = lower limit; UL= upper limit. *p < .05. **p < .001.