. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 9.

Published in final edited form as: Child Health Care. 2009;38(4):321–351. doi: 10.1080/02739610903237352

Table 8.

Multisample Analyses for Activities (Predictors of Slope) by Sex

Type of Activity	Boys	Girls	χ ² difference	df
Recreational Activities
Family cohesion	−0.082	0.276^**	5.23^*	1
Policies environment	−0.197	0.246^**	7.25^**	1
Child emotional functioning	−0.038	0.329^***	4.08^*	1
Child prosocial behavior	−0.106	0.267^*	6.04^*	1
Physical Activities
Parent/caregiver’s ethnicity (non Caucasian)	0.371^***	0.063	4.17^*	1
Household income	0.247	−0.175^**	7.03^**	1
Policies environment	−0.389^**	0.092	5.70^*	1
Physical environment	0.053	−0.365^**	4.04^*	1
Social Activities
Policies environment	−0.137	0.286^**	5.14^*	1

p ≤ .05,

^**

p ≤ .01,

^***

p ≤ .001