Table 5.
Educational type
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Gender
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Measures | Regular | Special | p-value | Male | Female | p-value |
Mean differences: | ||||||
Parent attachment | ||||||
Total | 43.2 | 40.4 | 0.007 | 42.5 | 41.7 | ns |
Trust | 36.3 | 35.3 | ns | 36.2 | 35.6 | 0.021 |
Communication | 16.0 | 15.8 | ns | 15.9 | 16.1 | ns |
Alienation | 9.2 | 10.7 | >0.001 | 9.6 | 10.0 | ns |
Peer attachment | ||||||
Total | 40.7 | 34.9 | >0.001 | 36.9 | 41.1 | 0.003 |
Trust | 40.5 | 38.6 | 0.022 | 39.1 | 40.9 | ns |
Communication | 14.7 | 13.9 | ns | 13.5 | 15.6 | 0.000 |
Alienation | 11.2 | 13.8 | >0.001 | 12.1 | 12.1 | ns |
Delinquency | 3.3 | 3.8 | >0.001 | 3.6 | 3.3 | ns |
Cronbach’s alpha differences: | ||||||
Parent attachment | ||||||
Total | 0.88(0.28) | 0.85(0.25) | 0.85(0.25) | 0.88(0.30) | ||
Trust | 0.86(0.40) | 0.87(0.41) | 0.84(0.36) | 0.89(0.46) | ||
Communication | 0.76(0.39) | 0.76(0.39) | 0.75(0.37) | 0.78(0.41) | ||
Alienation | 0.66(0.28) | 0.58(0.21) | 0.64(0.26) | 0.65(0.27) | ||
Peer attachment | ||||||
Total | 0.92(0.30) | 0.92(0.28) | 0.91(0.28) | 0.93(0.32) | ||
Trust | 0.89(0.41) | 0.91(0.47) | 0.90(0.43) | 0.90(0.44) | ||
Communication | 0.80(0.44) | 0.80(0.44) | 0.79(0.43) | 0.78(0.41) | ||
Alienation | 0.64(0.22) | 0.70(0.26) | 0.68(0.25) | 0.72(0.28) | ||
Delinquency | 0.61(0.42) | 0.65(0.38) | 0.59(0.33) | 0.76(0.59) |
Notes. Parenthetical values are the mean interitem correlation (provided because Cronbach’s alpha is heavily weighted by the number of items in a measure).