Association of home environment with children social–emotional problems and self-regulation (hypothesis 2)
Children with higher EC-HOME scores, indicating higher responsive care and learning opportunities in the home environment during early childhood, showed lower SDQ conduct problems (by parent and teacher reports) and lower SDQ hyperactivity/inattention (by parent report). They also demonstrated lower BPM-P externalizing and attention problems and higher EATQ-P self-regulation in attention and inhibitory control. EC-HOME scores were not significantly associated with self-report SDQ or MFQ scores or parent-report SCARED or CEMS scores (Association of home environment scores with each outcome.EC-HOME, Early Childhood Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment; MC-HOME, Middle Childhood Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment.Estimates are unstandardized Model 1 was adjusted for the child age at the follow-up and for the intervention group only.Model 3 was additionally adjusted for child sex, developmental assessment data collector, and any of the following variables that were significantly associated at the MC-HOME scores were included as a covariate in model 3 if they were independently associated with the outcome at 