Table 2.

Number and percentage of participants in the three ideal types, by number of boys and girls.

Gender	The adolescent with “Uncertain Sources of Support’” N (%)	The adolescent with “Self-Initiated Forms of Support” N (%)	The adolescent with “Multiple Sources of Support’” N (%)
Boys	18 (51.43%)	5 (71.43%)	12 (57.14%)
Girls	17 (48.57%)	2 (28.57%)	9 (42.86%)
Total	35 (55.56%)	7 (11.11%)	21 (33.33%)

The first two rows show the number N (%) of boys and girls within each type; the bottom row shows the number (%) of adolescents belonging to each ideal type out of the total sample (N = 63).