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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1907–1927. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01233.x

Table 2.

Means, Standard Deviations, Percent Missing, Partial Least Squares Variate Weights, and Correlations with Violence Outcome

Variable Mean SD % miss PLS r w/viol
Early adverse social context
 1a Neighborhood danger (age 0–5) 8.47 2.37 4.1 0.080 .08
 1b Lack of neighborhood services (age 0–5) 14.92 4.35 0.4 0.144 .25*
 1c Family SES (age 0–5) (R) 37.8 54.6 0.0 −0.077 −.14*
 1d Maternal depression (age 6) 11.97 9.39 0.0 0.128 .18*
Early harsh and inconsistent parenting
 2a Harsh discipline – vignette (age 1–5) 0.19 0.21 0.2 0.042 .03
 2b Corporal punishment – CTS (age 1–5) 1.30 1.30 0.0 0.074 .16*
 2c Harsh discipline – interviewer rating (age 1–5) 2.20 0.80 0.0 0.061 .05
 2d Lack of parental warmth - observed (age 1–5) 3.86 0.74 2.2 0.020 .12*
 2e Inconsistent Discipline – parent report (age 1–5) 2.82 0.55 1.3 0.076 .15*
School social and cognitive readiness
 3a Woodcock-Johnson Letter/Word Iden (gr k) (R) 13.83 4.68 0.0 0.065 .11*
 3b Vocabulary skill (gr k) (R) 9.41 3.55 0.0 0.028 .00
 3c Competent social problem solving (gr k) (R) 0.72 0.16 0.6 0.011 .08
 3d Hostile attributional bias (gr k) 0.59 0.30 0.0 0.089 .22*
 3e Emotion recognition skill (gr k) (R) 11.48 2.74 0.9 0.078 .10*
Early child externalizing behaviors
 4a Teacher report – TRF (log) (gr x) 4.18 0.44 66.5a 0.047 .07
 4b Parent report – CBCL (log) (gr x) 3.94 0.82 6.9 0.015 .25*
School social and academic failure
 5a Peer social rejection (gr 2–4) .15 0.89 22.7 0.118 .21*
 5b Grade retention (gr 1–4) .11 1.29 0.0 0.034 .00
 5c Special education (gr 1–4) .243 1.77 0.0 0.072 .06
 5d Failing Grades (gr 1–4) .06 0.98 0.0 0.031 .00
 5e Academic competency problems (gr 1–4) .23 1.75 0.0 0.044 .03
Adolescent parental monitoring
 6a Parental supervision – youth report (after gr 4) (R) 4.22 1.10 10.4 0.073 .09
 6b Parental supervision – parent report (after gr 4) (R) 4.79 1.15 12.3 0.047 .06
 6c Parent openness to communication (after gr 4) (R) 1.84 0.76 14.5 0.074 .11
 6d Parental communication with child (after gr 4) (R) 3.88 0.65 9.3 0.062 .15*
 6e Communication with parents (after gr 4) (R) 3.72 1.00 11.9 0.021 .03
 6f Parent involvement in school (after gr 4) (R) 1.42 0.58 11.9 0.059 −.04
Adolescent deviant peer association
 7a Deviant peer association - parent report (after gr 7) 15.23 5.62 18.1 0.143 .27*
 76b Deviant peer association - youth report (after gr 7) 1.34 0.60 21.4 0.114 .14*
Index of Adolescent Violence (gr 10–11) .544 6.21 19.2

Note: n ranges from 280 to 462;

*

p < .05.

a

Not administered to normative sample

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