. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 29.

Published in final edited form as: Youth Violence Juv Justice. 2004 Jan 1;2(3):273. doi: 10.1177/1541204004265878

TABLE 4.

Cross-Gender Comparisons of Slopes and Intercepts for SRO Construct Validity Relations

Predicted Measure	Girls Slope/Intercept	Boys Slope/Intercept	χ² Slope Difference	χ² Intercept Difference
Arrests	0.50^*/3.84^*	0.45^*/5.97^*	0.58	38.33^***
Age first arrest	−0.77^*/16.70^*	−0.75^*/18.40^*	0.02	34.83^***
Secure placements	0.50^*/4.91^*	0.52^*/7.14^*	0.04	46.83^***
Prior petitions	0.53^/4.39^*	0.71^*/5.76^*	1.13	27.80^***
Lifetime gang membership	4.93^*/6.44^*	5.68^*/6.63^*	0.68	0.85
Moral disengagement	4.24^***/−0.87	5.36^***/−0.61	1.44	34.41^***
Impulsivity	2.85^*/−5.59^*	3.70^*/−8.07^*	15.35^***	57.24^***
Certainty of punishment	−0.38^*/7.96^*	−0.61^*/11.21^*	4.09^*	28.08^***
Personal rewards of crime	0.58^*/4.25^*	0.86^*/5.90^*	4.32^*	45.21^***
Peer delinquent behavior	2.31^***/0.69	3.33^***/0.17	9.27^**	29.53^***
Antisocial influence	2.65^***/1.17	2.91^*/2.84^*	0.43	45.03^***
Social support	−0.19/6.81^***	−0.17/9.06^***	0.02	47.24^***
Parental monitoring	−2.16^*/11.66^*	−2.49^*/14.68^*	0.58	40.18^***

NOTE: SRO = self-reports of offending.

p < .05.

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p < .01.

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p < .001.