Table 2.
Discriminant Analyses Predicting High-Agreeable and Low-Agreeable Adults From Childhood Behavior and Adulthood Personality
| Variable | Standardized discriminant coefficient |
Structure coefficient |
% original grouped cases correctly classified |
% cross-validated grouped cases correctly classified |
Wilks’s lambda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childhood behavior | 64.9 | 60.8 | .92** | ||
| Activity/passivity | −.37 | −.47 | |||
| Aggression | −.28 | −.73 | |||
| Anxiety | −.60 | −.30 | |||
| Compliance | .77 | .79 | |||
| Constructiveness | −.28 | .36 | |||
| Self-control | −.10 | .72 | |||
| Adulthood personality | 64.4 | 62.4 | .89** | ||
| Anxiety | −.10 | −.22 | |||
| Impulsivity | −.43 | −.63 | |||
| Inhibit aggression | .57 | .43 | |||
| Socialization | .66 | .71 | |||
Note. Childhood behavior, df = 6. Adulthood personality, df = 4.
**
p < .01.