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Published in final edited form as: J Res Pers. 2009;43(1):49–59. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.10.006

Table 2.

Correlations between personality traits, delinquency, and adolescent- and mother-report solicitation, knowledge, and disclosure variables in female and male adolescents

	ASK-A	TELL-A	KNOW-A	ASK-M	TELL-M	KNOW-M	DBI
Well-Being
Females	.103	.192^**	.160^**	−.004	.107	.053	−.153^*
Males	.008	.143^*	.176^*	−.014	−.015	−.012	−.063
Stress Reaction
Females	−.083	−.131^*	−.175^**	.026	−.015	−.024	.228^**
Males	.117	−.115	−.106	.067	−.035	−.024	.170^*
Harm Avoidance
Females	.054	.134^*	.149^*	−.018	.161^*	.154^*	−.232^**
Males	.006	.006	−.074	−.022	.109	.119	−.213^**
Control
Females	.030	.237^**	.264^**	.014	.235^**	.219^**	−.400^**
Males	.128	.283^**	.193^**	−.073	.219^*	.213^*	−.403^**
Alienation
Females	−.079	−.207^**	−.219^**	.089	−.079	−.051	.357^**
Males	.013	−.123	−.148	−.043	−.098	−.103	.150^*
Aggression
Females	−.096	−.226^**	−.208^*	.057	−.061	−.155^*	.436^**
Males	−.028	−.092	−.175^*	.016	−.038	−.033	.413^**
Delinquency
Females	−.145^*	−.283^**	−.327^**	.042	−.152^**	−.253^*	--
Males	.013	−.119	−.295^*	−.158	−.430^**	−.476^**	--

ASK: parental solicitation; TELL: child disclosure; KNOW: parental knowledge. -A suffix indicates adolescent-report data; -M indicates mother-report data.

= p < .05;

^**

= p < .01. Cell sizes (Ns) range from 105 to 329.