Table 3.

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

	Anxiety			Depression
	b	SE	Beta	b	SE	Beta
Teacher-Rated Internalizing Behaviors
MA children (ref.: DA children)	2.94	1.42	0.30	−0.10	0.97	−0.01
Kindergarten (ref.: pre-kindergarten)	0.93	1.24	0.10	0.87	0.88	0.12
Family income-to-needs ratio	0.33	0.74	0.03	−0.15	0.53	−0.02
Skin color (ref.: honorary white)
Moderately dark	−0.38	0.74	−0.08	−0.13	0.46	−0.04
Collective black	0.88	1.33	0.18	0.47	0.76	0.13
Teacher-rated behavior problems at baseline	0.23	0.12	0.22	0.37	0.10	0.43**
Moderately dark skin color × behavior problems at baseline	0.05	0.07	0.05	0.04	0.06	0.04
Collective black skin color × behavior problems at baseline	0.02	0.14	0.02	0.09	0.10	0.10
Mother-Rated Internalizing Behaviors
MA children (ref.: DA children)	−0.11	1.21	−0.01	0.50	1.11	0.06
Kindergarten (ref.: pre-kindergarten)	−1.18	0.97	−0.11	1.08	0.97	0.13
Family income-to-needs ratio	−0.94	0.74	−0.07	−0.67	0.61	−0.06
Skin color (ref.: honorary white)
Moderately dark	−0.14	0.57	−0.03	−0.59	0.52	−0.14
Collective black	0.78	0.98	0.15	0.61	0.85	0.15
Mother-rated behavior problems at baseline	0.54	0.07	0.58***	0.35	0.07	0.47***
Moderately dark skin color × behavior problems at baseline	−0.02	0.05	−0.02	−0.04	0.04	−0.05
Collective black × behavior problems at baseline	−0.04	0.08	−0.05	−0.06	0.07	−0.08

Note.

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001.