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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 29.
Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2009 Oct 26;37(4):465–478. doi: 10.1177/1090198109347067

Table 2.

Construct Means, Standard Deviations, Skewness, and Kurtosis Statistics for Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Racial/Ethnic Subgroups

Factor Label Subgroup M SD Skewness Kurtosis
SEFC
Male 2.53 0.55 −1.08 0.26
Female 2.54 0.53 −1.02 0.19
Low SES 2.54 0.57 −1.03 0.04
High SES 2.51 0.51 −1.02 0.38
Caucasian 2.50 0.54 −0.94 −0.02
African American 2.58 0.55 −1.37 1.15
SEVC
Male 2.36 0.67 −0.78 −0.61
Female 2.35 0.62 −0.56 −0.79
Low SES 2.37 0.70 −0.75 −0.72
High SES 2.36 0.59 −0.70 −0.44
Caucasian 2.38 0.63 −0.78 −0.49
African American 2.33 0.72 −0.64 −0.94
PEFV-P
Male 2.52 0.56 −1.08 0.31
Female 2.49 .054 −1.09 0.48
Low SES 2.46 0.60 −1.04 0.15
High SES 2.53 0.50 −1.04 0.41
Caucasian 2.47 0.54 −0.83 −0.22
African American 2.58 0.56 −1.60 2.00
PEFV-S
Male 2.07 0.65 −0.09 −1.03
Female 1.97 0.64 0.049 −1.09
Low SES 2.09 0.66 −0.16 −1.11
High SES 1.92 0.63 0.12 −0.96
Caucasian 1.95 0.64 0.09 −1.01
African American 2.17 0.62 −0.26 −0.86

NOTE: Male, n = 119; female, n = 119; low SES, n = 110; high SES, n = 110; Caucasian, n = 141; African American, n = 50. SEFC = self-efficacy for fruit consumption; SEVC = self-efficacy for vegetable consumption; PEFV-P = proxy efficacy from parents; PEFV-S = proxy efficacy from after-school staff; SES = socioeconomic status.