In order to examine whether infants born ELGA and VLGA differed significantly on
emotional reactivity and emotion regulation behaviors, a series of t-tests were conducted.
Infants born ELGA evidenced a significantly greater negative affect slope than did infants
born VLGA (t(44.9) = −3.10, p < .01), suggesting greater emotional reactivity in infants
born ELGA (Table 1). Infants born ELGA also displayed less frequent gaze avoidance