There was also a significant interaction between early caregiving and adult romantic quality in predicting slopes. Probing this effect for each of the four configurations revealed that none of the simple slopes of the trajectories differed significantly from zero. In other words, the slopes for configurations of early caregiving and adult romantic quality differ from one another (as indexed by the significant interaction), but none of them significantly differ from zero. These null simple slope effects suggest that the intercept differences described above were maintained across time.
