. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Aug 22.

Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2001;72(1):220–235. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00275

Table 7.

Adolescents’ Behaviors Exhibiting Autonomy, the Mother–Adolescent Relationship and Adolescent Adjustment

	r	β^a	ΔR²	R²
Alienation
Level of risk	−.27^**	−.19^*		.07^**
Gender	.15⁺	.11	.02	.09^**
Exhibiting Autonomy	.20^**	.11	.02	.11^**
Risk^* exhibiting autonomy		.19^*	.03^*	.14^**
β_{High Risk} = .43^**
β_{Low Risk} = −.02
Self-reported delinquency
Level of risk	.09	.16^*		.01
Gender	−.08	−.10	.01	.02
Exhibiting Autonomy	.13	.16⁺	.02⁺	.04
Risk^* exhibiting autonomy		.19^*	.04^*	.08^*
β_{High Risk} = .44^**
β_{Low Risk} = .03
Peer-reported friendship competence
Level of risk	.20^*	.23^*		.04^*
Gender	.22^*	.21^*	.05^**	.09^**
Exhibiting Autonomy	.16⁺	.19^*	.03^*	.12^**
Risk^* exhibiting autonomy		−.17^*	.03⁺	.15^**
β_{High Risk} = −.08
β_{Low Risk} = .28^*

β weights are from final model.

p<.05

^**

p<.01

⁺

p<.10