Table 4.

Changes in Mental Health Score, Stratified by Sex, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997^a

Measureb	Females			Males
	Parameter Estimate	SE	P Value	Parameter Estimate	SE	P Value
Intercept	9.668	0.189	<0.001	11.196	0.269	<0.001
Year (0 = year 0, 2 = 2-year follow-up, etc.)	0.162	0.051	0.002	−0.182	0.072	0.012
Year × year	−0.002	0.008	0.838	0.032	0.012	0.007
Teenage parenthood	−0.189	0.163	0.248	−0.809	0.217	<0.001
Teenage parenthood × year	−0.073	0.032	0.024	0.119	0.046	0.009

Abbreviations: PIAT, Peabody Individual Achievement Test; SE, standard error.

^aValues represent unstandardized coefficients.

^bAdjusted for percent of poverty level, paternal education, maternal education, both biologic parents in home, number of children in home, parental monitoring, parental relationship quality, PIAT score, residential location, and difference in months between 1997 baseline interview and year 0 interview.