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.
Not administered to normative sample