Table 3.

Multiple Regression Models with Family Communication Predicting Adolescents’ Social Trust

	Model 1: Adolescent Concurrent Reports	Model 2: Mother Concurrent Reports	Model 3: Adolescent Lagged Reports
Intercept	1.89***	1.44***	1.43***
Control Variables
Age	−.02	−.01	−.02
Gender (Male=1, Female=0)	.14**	.11*	.12*
Race: Black	.02	−.02	−.02
Hispanic	−.10	−.15	−.14
Other	−.16	−.25	−.23
Mothers’ Education	−.06*	−.05†	−.04
Trusted Friendship	−.03	.001	−.01
Positive Neighborhood Clim.	.13***	.18***	.17***
Social Trust
Adolescents’ STa T1	.24***	.27***	.27***
Mothers’ STa T2	.13**	.12*	.14**
Family Communication
Compassion Messages	.30***	.13†	.10
Caution Messages	−.09†	−.09	−.03
Democratic Parenting	.12***	.05	−.02
R2 Total	.26	.20	.21

Note. N = 1150. Unstandardized betas reported. Pooled estimates across multiply imputed datasets are shown.

^†p ≤ .10,

^*p ≤ .05,

^**p ≤ .01,

^***p ≤ .001.

^aST = Social Trust.