. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Child Fam Stud. 2009 Oct 1;18(5):594–605. doi: 10.1007/s10826-009-9262-1

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics for maltreatment and nonmaltreatment groups

	M (SD) or percentage
Variables	Nonmaltreated (n = 159)	Maltreated (n = 170)	t or χ²
Child age (years)	10.11 (1.76)	10.26 (1.86)	.74
Child gender (% male)	43%	58%	7.24^*
Child ethnicity (% non-White)	86%	80%	2.21
Parent ethnicity (% non-White)	86%	68%	14.53^*
Parent education (% ≤ High school)	54%	67%	5.80^*
Family Hollingshead^a (% below level 2)	71%	84%	10.49^*
Receiving public assistance^a	79%	83%	1.18
Marital status (% not married)	65%	61%	.48

Because of missing data, analyses of family Hollingshead involved a total of 324 children, and analyses of receiving public assistance involved a total of 327 children.

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