Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and correlations among study variables for Caucasian and African American men
| Variables | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | M (SD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Age 1.5 maternal punitiveness | — | .26† | .47*** | .25* | .12 | .31** | −.17 | 1.15 (0.38) |
| 2. Age 10 hostile attributional bias | −.02 | — | .30* | −.24† | .17 | −.04 | .07 | 5.35 (1.81) |
| 3. Age 10 aggressive response generation | .11 | .24* | — | .03 | .23† | .33* | −.05 | 2.05 (1.72) |
| 4. Age 17 violent attitudes | .17† | .20† | .22* | — | −.06 | .50*** | .09 | 35.60 (10.84) |
| 5. Official arrests | .14 | .26* | .12 | .29** | — | .16 | .00 | 1.05 (1.90) |
| 6. Age 20 and 22 antisocial behavior | .10 | .24* | .05 | .41** | .34*** | — | −.21† | 9.03 (8.23) |
| 7. MAOA genotypea | .06 | −.29** | −.22* | −.06 | −.13 | −.09 | — | 1.54 (0.50) |
| M | 1.12 | 4.33 | 1.35 | 33.79 | 0.38 | 10.57 | 1.69 | |
| SD | 0.33 | 2.07 | 1.57 | 8.28 | 0.99 | 7.67 | 0.46 |
Note: MAOA, Monoamine oxidase A. For values below the diagonal, Caucasian men n = 82–104; for values above the diagonal, African American men n = 52–76.
Low-activity three-repeat carriers coded as 1; high-activity four-repeat carriers coded as 2.
p < .10.
p < .05.
p < .01.
p < .001.