Table 3.

Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regression Models Estimating the Relationship between Youth Disclosure of Police Contact and Mental Health, Variation by Race

	Depressive symptoms		Anxiety
	Black youth	Non-Black youth	Black youth	Non-Black youth
	b	b	b	b
	[C.I.]	[C.I.]	[C.I.]	[C.I.]
Panel A. Full Sample
Youth police contact	0.107 **	0.207 ***	0.098 **	0.172 ***
	[0.044 – 0.171]	[0.136 – 0.277]	[0.028 – 0.168]	[0.095 – 0.250]
Constant	2.735	2.282	3.398	3.069
Adjusted R-squared	0.060	0.083	0.064	0.051
N	1,600	1,663	1,600	1,663
Panel B. Sample Restricted to Youth with Police Contact
Youth disclosed police contact	−0.075	0.033	−0.117 ^	−0.041
	[−0.187 – 0.038]	[−0.121 – 0.186]	[−0.237 – 0.003]	[−0.200 – 0.117]
Constant	3.700	1.629	4.442	2.809
Adjusted R-squared	0.073	0.082	0.057	0.036
N	495	374	495	374
Race/ethnic subgroups, full sample
	White youth	Hispanic youth	White youth	Hispanic youth
	0.196**	0.222***	0.204**	0.136*
	[0.076 – 0.316]	[0.119 – 0.326]	[0.069 – 0.340]	[0.024 – 0.249]
Race/ethnic subgroups, restricted sample
	White youth	Hispanic youth	White youth	Hispanic youth
	−0.007	0.151	−0.06	0.04*
	[−0.324 – 0.311]	[−0.082 – 0.385]	[−0.381 – 0.260]	[−0.195 – 0.276]
	128	175	128	175
Adjusted R-squared, full sample
1	0.058	0.084	0.060	0.057
2	0.060	0.080	0.063	0.052
3	0.062	0.083	0.065	0.054
4	0.056	0.086	0.063	0.053
5	0.060	0.089	0.059	0.053
6	0.064	0.088	0.070	0.052
7	0.059	0.081	0.061	0.052
8	0.057	0.078	0.059	0.052
9	0.065	0.078	0.068	0.050
10	0.059	0.081	0.061	0.051
11	0.059	0.084	0.066	0.052
12	0.063	0.086	0.063	0.048
13	0.054	0.083	0.056	0.054
14	0.054	0.080	0.061	0.045
15	0.060	0.081	0.066	0.050
16	0.067	0.083	0.067	0.052
17	0.062	0.085	0.069	0.048
18	0.066	0.086	0.068	0.055
19	0.064	0.080	0.064	0.046
20	0.060	0.082	0.063	0.052
	0.060	0.083	0.064	0.051
Adjusted R-squared, restricted sample
1	0.082	0.083	0.054	0.037
2	0.080	0.080	0.071	0.039
3	0.072	0.087	0.058	0.034
4	0.066	0.077	0.063	0.036
5	0.065	0.101	0.039	0.044
6	0.070	0.089	0.063	0.034
7	0.068	0.079	0.061	0.037
8	0.071	0.075	0.059	0.045
9	0.072	0.089	0.054	0.042
10	0.073	0.079	0.057	0.038
11	0.073	0.083	0.054	0.034
12	0.086	0.084	0.057	0.029
13	0.072	0.087	0.055	0.042
14	0.076	0.064	0.061	0.032
15	0.070	0.085	0.047	0.036
16	0.071	0.079	0.048	0.032
17	0.080	0.085	0.064	0.037
18	0.072	0.079	0.065	0.040
19	0.072	0.079	0.055	0.027
20	0.071	0.081	0.061	0.032
	0.073	0.082	0.057	0.036

Notes: Models adjust for all youth and parent characteristics in Table 1.

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001.