Table 2 Correlations among children’s evaluations of risk, safety knowledge, risk-taking behaviors, and continuous demographic variables

(1) Risk evaluation

–

(2) Risk evaluation: falls

.88

–

(3) Risk evaluation: burns

.87

.63

–

(4) Risk evaluation: traffic

.85

.62

.64

–

(5) Safety knowledge

.57

.47

.51

.50

–

(6) Safety knowledge: falls

.44

.37

.35

.41

.70

–

(7) Safety knowledge: burns

.47

.43

.41

.38

.53

.19

–

(8) Safety knowledge: traffic

.37

.31.

.34

.31

.65

.21

.28

–

(9) Risk-taking

−  .49

− .44

− .37

− .44

−  .40

− .31

− .13

.33

–

(10) Risk-taking: falls

− .36

− .37

− .27

− .27

− .27

− .22

− .15

− .23

.73

–

(11) Risk-taking: burns

− .39

− .35

− .31

− .35

− .35

− .27

− .08

− .29

.87

.44

–

(12) Risk-taking: traffic

− .41

− .34

− .29

− .42

− .33

− .24

− .12

− .27

.78

.39

.55

–

(13) Child’s age

.30

.26

.29

.23

.53

.39

.28

.29

− .08

− .12

− .08

− .01

–

(14) Father’s age

.13

.14

.07

.10

.27

.04

.07

.28

− .10

− .07

−  .14

.03

.21

–

(15) Mother’s age

.06

.07

.02

.04

.22

.04

− .02

.23

− .08

− .07

− .09

− .02

.18

.81

–

(16) Family SES

.22

.16

− .27

.20

.42

.15

.13

.32

− .33

− .18

−  .31

− .30

− .02

.11

.16

–