Table 2.

Regression Model Assessing the Association between Skin Color and Internalizing Behaviors among Boys

	Anxiety			Depression
	b	SE	Beta	b	SE	Beta
Teacher-Rated Internalizing Behaviors
MA children (ref.: DA children)	2.34	1.61	0.22	−0.46	1.18	−0.06
Kindergarten (ref.: pre-kindergarten)	1.41	1.45	0.13	1.63	1.00	0.21
Family income-to-needs ratio	1.33	0.92	0.10	−0.43	0.65	−0.05
Skin color (ref.: honorary white)
Moderately dark	−0.46	0.80	−0.09	−0.27	0.56	−0.07
Collective black	−0.52	1.22	−0.10	−0.48	0.85	−0.12
Teacher-rated behavior problems at baseline	0.31	0.16	0.23	0.38	0.10	0.41**
Moderately dark skin color × behavior problems at baseline	0.14	0.09	0.10	0.01	0.07	0.01
Collective black skin color × behavior problems at baseline	0.11	0.17	0.08	0.02	0.11	0.02
Mother-Rated Internalizing Behaviors
MA children (ref.: DA children)	0.55	1.31	0.05	2.52	1.13	0.29*
Kindergarten (ref.: pre-kindergarten)	−1.48	1.07	−0.13	0.29	0.94	0.03
Family income-to-needs ratio	−0.14	0.72	−0.01	−0.34	0.59	−0.03
Skin color (ref.: honorary white)
Moderately dark	0.21	0.70	0.04	0.37	0.55	0.08
Collective black	−0.05	0.91	−0.01	0.88	0.82	0.20
Mother-rated behavior problems at baseline	0.61	0.08	0.63***	0.40	0.07	0.52***
Moderately dark × behavior problems at baseline	−0.06	0.06	−0.06	−0.03	0.04	−0.03
Collective black × behavior problems at baseline	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.02	0.07	0.03

Note.

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001.