Table 4.

Multiple Regression Model with Adolescent Reports of Family Communication at Time 2 Predicting Time 2 Social Trust for Three Adolescent Age Groups

	Early Adolescence (11–12) N = 351	Middle Adolescence (13–14) N = 362	Late Adolescence (15–19) N = 437
Intercept	1.81***	1.68***	1.39***
Control Variables
Gender (Male=1, Female=0)	−.01	.19†	.21*
Race: Black	−.34*	.22	.10
Hispanic	−.19	−.04	−.02
Other	−.31	−.01	−.11
Mothers’ Education	−.02	−.08	−.06
Trusted Friendship	−.04	−.02	−.05
Positive Neighborhood Clim.	.13†	.12*	.14*
Social Trust
Adolescents’ STa T1	.23***	.23***	.26***
Mothers’ STa T2	.15†	.09	.12
Family Communication
Compassion Messages	.20†	.39***	.31**
Caution Messages	.02	−.22*	−.08
Democratic Parenting	.16**	.14*	.08
R2 Total	.26	.25	.29

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

^†p ≤ .10,

^*p ≤ .05,

^**p ≤ .01,

^***p ≤ .001.

^aST = Social Trust.