Table 2.

Means, standard deviations, and ANOVA comparisons of the three family typologies on seven defining variables

	Cohesive (C) (n = 137)		Enmeshed (E) (n = 51)		Disengaged (D) (n = 43)
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F(2, 230)	Post Hoc
Wave 1:
Interparental Hostility	−.46	.53	1.47	.79	−.27	.64	187.50*	E > C, D
Interparental Withdrawal	−.36	.67	−.18	.74	1.38	.97	90.50*	D > E, C
Parental Emotional Availability	.31	.82	.01	1.02	−.99	.86	36.17*	E, C > D
Parental Intrusiveness	−.14	.95	.09	1.07	.34	.99	4.20*	D > C
Child Relatedness	.18	.96	−.12	1.01	−.44	.98	7.23*	E, D > C
Triadic Competition	−.08	.90	.40	1.23	−.28	.88	6.20*	E > C, D
Triadic Cooperation	.18	.91	−.16	.98	−.37	1.18	5.97*	C > D, E
Triadic Cohesiveness	.27	.95	−.20	.92	−.61	.91	15.59*	C > E, D

Post hoc comparisons used Tukey’s HSD to control for alpha level, “>“ refers to significantly larger whereas “,” refer to not-significantly different at alpha = .05 level.

^*p ≤ .001