Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 4, 2016:

@DLyons Thanks "D." That must be a different article by the same author, since I don't find some of those particular words. But I think the gist is right now.

DLyons Nov 3, 2016:

@Susan There's an "overall constraining" figure of -0.24 for Boys (but doesn't seem to fit into your context).

Also "Parents affective, constraining" and "Parents judgmental".

Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 3, 2016:

I managed to access the relevant document... FWIW, the only thing that has a positive correlation of .40 is a table showing Correlations between Adolescents and Their Parents for Summary Family Scores and Active Codes > Affective Code > Enabling > Mother. For -.24 we have Correlations between Parents' Enabling and Adolescent Discourse > Parents to Adolescent > Topic Change > Affective Enabling. The opposite of "Enabling" in this article is "Constraining," but no numbers show up there that match those in what I am translating.
My translation now reads: "The 'enabling' communication behavior was, for example, correlated positively (r = 0.40) and the 'evaluative' communication correlated negatively (r = -0.24) with the adolescents' ego development level."

Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 3, 2016:

@Michael Ah! In that case it works. Thanks!
You never know with psychologists, how they are going to interpret perfectly ordinary words!

Michael Martin, MA Nov 3, 2016:

Evaluative communication makes a judgment or places a label on other individuals or their behavior: "You are doing it wrong," "You are incompetent." Such evaluation generally makes the other person feel under attack and respond defensively.
https://www.google.com/#q=evaluative communication

Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 3, 2016:

r and Michael's answer I don't know what it means. I'll try to dig it out from the context, but I don't think it's there.
And yes! There should be a minus sign before the 0,24! My CAT tool rendered it as a tag, so it didn't appear here on Proz.
I think Michael's answer is on the right track, but "evaluative" can't be the right word. It must be something that is the more the opposite of "accepting" communications from the parents (like "critical" perhaps).
I am going to try to access the paper through JSTOR.

Cilian O'Tuama Nov 3, 2016:

see http://study.com/academy/lesson/negative-correlation-in-psyc...

Cilian O'Tuama Nov 3, 2016:

r = Pearson product moment correlation. Is there a minus sign missing before the 0,24?

Rachel Hutcheson Nov 3, 2016:

r What does "r" mean in this context?

Susan Welsh (asker) Nov 3, 2016:

@Phil Correction: I did find the paper, but it is locked behind a pay wall. I am going to dig further.

philgoddard Nov 3, 2016:

Hi Susan Have you tried Googling the paper concerned? There's quite a lot about it online, which may help.