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Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2003 Aug;160(8):1470–1478. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.8.1470

TABLE 5.

Hierarchical Regression Analysis of the Relationship of Four Domains of Psychosocial Risk Factors With Violent Behavior in a Community Sample of Adolescents in Three Cities in Colombia

	Analysis of Relationship With Violent Behavior^a
	Without Other Domains Controlled			With Other Domains Controlled			Difference
Domain	R²	F	df	R²	F	df	R²	F
Adolescent's personality	0.29	383.84^*	7, 2,829	0.27	338.38^*	17, 2,819	0.02	45.46
Family	0.12	97.09^*	8, 2,828	0.011	75.72^*	17, 2,819	0.01	21.37
Peers	0.27	533.45^*	6, 2,850	0.25	453.18^*	17, 2,819	0.02	80.27
Ecological/cultural	0.50	713.97^*	8, 2,828	0.30	393.23^*	17, 2,819	0.20	320.74

Violent behavior was defined as the number of instances of the behaviors listed in Table 1.

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