. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 4.

Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2010 Mar 1;38(3):329–349. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20367

Table 1.

Boys: Neighborhood Effects on Interpersonal Aggression Ccoefficients and Standardized Coefficients (in Parentheses), 701 Boys and 62 Neighborhoods

Predictors of Aggression	Single-level model (1)	Nei. % Single Male (2)	Nei. % Female Head (3)	Nei. Male Employ-ment (4)	Nei. Median Income (5)	Nei. Violence (6)
	Individual-Level Predictors
Child Aggression at First Grade (Intercept)
Family Income	−.122 (−.211)^**	−.114 (−.200)^*	−.117 (−.205)^*	−.139 (−.241)^**	−.132 (−.229)^**	−.116 (−.202)^*
Family Structure¹	.009 (.010)	.008 (.009)	.006 (.007)	.009 (.010)	.010 ( .011)	.003 (.003)
Physical Discipline²	.206 (.148)^**	.212 (.154)^**	.215( .156)^**	.216 (.156)^**	.216 (.156)^**	.214 (.156)^***
Change in Aggression of Children Between 1st 7th Grade (Slope)
Family Income	−.033 (−.379)^***	−.019 (−.336)^*	−.020 (−.243)^*	−.019 (−.247)^*	−.018 (−.230)^~	−.018 (−.228)^*
Family Structure¹	.013 (.101)	.010 (.068)	.009 (.082)	.009 (.079)	.008 ( .069)	.009 (.072)
Physical Discipline²	.001 (.003)	.001 (.001)	−.000 (−.008)	.000 (.002)	−.001 (−.004)	.000 (−.002)
	Neighborhood-Level Predictors
Aggression of Neighborhood Children at Grade One (Intercept)		.056(1.00)	.017(1.00)	.009(1.00)	.006(1.00)	.120(1.00)
Change in Aggression of Neighborhood Children Between 1st and 7th Grade (Slope)		.043(739)^***	.014(760)^**	.011 (−702)^***	−.033 (−.824)^***	.102 (.944)^***
Chi-Square/df	168.7/109	286.83/148	285.18/148	281.47/148	280.87/148	289.51/148
CFI	.987	.975	.975	.976	.976	.975
TLI	.984	.972	.972	.973	.973	.972
RMSEA	.028	.037	.036	.036	.036	.037
% of Variance Explained (R2)
Within-Level Intercept	.084^**	.066^*	.068^*	.085^*	.080^*	.066^*
Within-Level Slope	.279^***	.224^**	.231^**	.218^*	.214^*	.224^**
Between-Level Intercept (set to 0)		1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000
Between-Level Slope		.546	.577	.493^*	.680 ^**	.892^*

NOTE:

p<.06;

p<.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001.

Mother alone = 1; all other combinations = 0.

High = frequent.