Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Full Sample and for Three Adolescent Age Groups

	Full Sample N = 1150		Early Adolescence (11–12) N = 351		Middle Adolescence (13–14) N = 362		Late Adolescence (15–19) N = 437
Variables	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Social Trust
Adolescent T1	3.17	0.87	3.36	0.85	3.15	0.88	3.04	0.86
Adolescent T2	3.09	0.84	3.21	0.86	3.11	0.85	2.97	0.81
Mother T2	3.13	0.67	3.10	0.64	3.12	0.69	3.15	0.69
Compassion
Adolescent T1	4.12	0.59	4.20	0.49	4.10	0.60	4.08	0.64
Adolescent T2	4.10	0.59	4.11	0.57	4.09	0.57	4.11	0.64
Mother T1	4.22	0.45	4.28	0.42	4.22	0.47	4.19	0.45
Mother T2	4.18	0.43	4.19	0.42	4.17	0.44	4.19	0.43
Caution
Adolescent T1	4.12	0.62	4.18	0.59	4.06	0.65	4.12	0.43
Adolescent T2	4.12	0.64	4.13	0.63	4.12	0.61	4.13	0.68
Mother T1	4.06	0.49	4.08	0.50	4.09	0.47	4.01	0.49
Mother T2	3.96	0.45	3.97	0.44	3.94	0.46	3.98	0.46
Democratic Parenting
Adolescent T1	3.64	0.89	3.83	0.87	3.54	0.92	3.57	0.88
Adolescent T2	3.55	0.90	3.50	0.94	3.53	0.86	3.60	0.88
Mother T1	4.16	0.49	4.17	0.51	4.14	0.49	4.18	0.48
Mother T2	4.20	0.51	4.23	0.54	4.20	0.48	4.18	0.49
Demographics
Male	0.46	--	0.49	--	0.44	--	0.44	--
White	0.80	--	0.79	--	0.78	--	0.84	--
Black	0.11	--	0.11	--	0.14	--	0.08	--
Hispanic	0.05	--	0.06	--	0.05	--	0.03	--
Other	0.04	--	0.04	--	0.03	--	0.05	--
Mothers’ Edu.	2.99a	0.96	2.98	0.92	2.94	1.01	3.04	0.94
Other Controls
Friendship	4.21	0.65	4.26	0.61	4.17	0.69	4.20	0.64
School	2.94	0.88	3.31	0.81	2.88	0.87	2.70	0.84
Neighborhood	3.53	0.80	3.76	0.77	3.47	0.86	3.40	0.73

Note. Descriptive statistics are reported from the EM dataset.

SD = Standard Deviation. Standard deviations not shown for proportions.

^aMothers’ education measured on a 5-point scale.