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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 4.

Model R² values of personality predicting delinquency with and without solicitation, knowledge, and disclosure variables

	Females		Males
	Adolescent-Report Data	Mother-Report Data	Adolescent-Report Data	Mother-Report Data
	Model R²	Model R²	Model R²	Model R²
Model
PER	.29	.29	.26	.26
PER + ASK	.29	.29	.26	.26
PER + TELL	.29	.29	.26	.37^†
PER + KNOW	.30	.29	.28	.41^†
PER + ALL	.31	.31	.32^†	.42^†

ASK: parental solicitation; TELL: child disclosure; KNOW: parental knowledge; ALL: all three scales (i.e., solicitation, knowledge, and disclosure); PER: all six personality scales.

^†

indicates a significant change in R² (p < .05) between a baseline model (i.e., all personality scales) and a model also including solicitation/knowledge/disclosure. Cell sizes (Ns) range from 94 to 186.