Table 3.

Summary of Structural Equation Models Predicting Child Behavior at Age 7 With Prenatal Drug Exposure (N = 840, 360 cocaine exposed and 480 comparison)

	Path Coefficients in Each Model
	Final Outcome Variables
	Caregiver Report			Teacher Report			Caregiver and Parent Report
Paths in the Model	Externalizing	Internalizing	Total	Externalizing	Internalizing	Total	Externalizing	Internalizing	Total
Drug →7yr CBCL	0.21	n.s.	0.16	n.s.	n.s.	0.11	0.34	n.s.	0.16
Drug →3yr CBCL	n.s.	0.11	n.s.	0.14	n.s.	n.s.	0.12	n.s.	0.11
Drug → 7yr SES	−0.20	−0.21	−0.20	−0.22	−0.20	−0.20	−0.21	−0.21	−0.21
7yr SES →7y CBCL	−0.09	−0.07	−0.10	−0.14	−0.16	−0.14	−0.16	−0.23	−0.16
Drug → NNNS	0.16	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.16
NNNS → IBQ	0.21	0.17	0.22	0.20	0.18	0.23	0.19	0.19	0.20
IBQ→3yr CBCL	0.27	0.25	0.29	0.28	0.27	0.31	0.29	0.27	0.28
Total Variance Explained in the Final Outcome Variables
R Square	.31	.18	.32	.07	.03	.22	.35	.60	.52
Goodness of Fit Statistics
CFI	0.971	0.968	0.972	0.971	0.968	0.975	0.976	0.956	0.975
TLI	0.963	0.959	0.963	0.962	0.957	0.966	0.971	0.944	0.968
P value	.001	.001	.001	.002	.001	.005	.006	.000	.004
χ2/df	2.04	2.07	2.04	1.94	2.02	1.83	1.73	2.22	1.80
RMSEA	0.035	0.036	0.035	0.033	0.035	0.031	0.030	0.038	0.031

Note: All path coefficients are significant (p < .05) unless otherwise indicated as nonsignficant (n.s.). Nonsignificant paths were removed from the final models.