approached significancep =0.066
Further, we found that the difference in the amount of parents’ persistence-focused language directed to boys and girls approached significance t (29)=1.04, p =0.066, 95% CI[−0.15, 0.50], with parents using more persistence-focused utterances with girls ( M =0.13, SD =0.16) than with boys ( M =0.07, SD =0.12).