Table 2.

Correlations between Risk Variables and Mental Health Variables

Variables	RCMAS	TSCC DEP	TSCC ANG	TSCC PTS	TSCC DIS	TSCC SC	CBCL Int.	CBCL Ext.
1. Physical abusea	.12	.07	.05	.10	.05	.05	.02	.20*
2. Sexual abusea	.00	.11	.01	.09	.13*	.32*	−.05	.08
3. Failure to provideb	.06	.03	−.02	−.11	.01	−.04	.12	.00
4. Lack of supervisionb	−.07	−.03	−.04	−.04	.00	.00	−.08	−.13*
5. Emotional abusea	−.01	.00	−.02	.08	.01	.00	−.08	−.01
6. Moral/legal abusea	−.07	−.04	.00	−.05	−.03	.07	.05	−.06
7. Educational Neglecta	−.04	.01	−.05	−.11	.00	−.09	−.01	−.15*
8. Number of previous D&Nsb	−.06	.01	.00	−.06	−.06	−.07	.12	.10
9. Deaths in the familya	−.02	−.05	−.07	−.03	−.07	−.01	−.01	−.03
10. Single parent householda	.13*	.01	.02	.08	.03	−.03	.02	−.01
11. Domestic violencea	−.10	−.11	−.07	−.09	−.05	−.04	.07	.10
12. Caregiver alcohol abusea	−.03	−.14*	−.09	−.10	−.09	−.04	−.01	−.01
13. Caregiver substance abusea	−.15*	−.11	−.06	−.12	−.09	−.04	−.10	−.16*
14. Caregiver criminal historya	−.11	−.10	−.06	−.09	−.01	−.04	.05	−.01
15. Caregiver transitionsb	.09	.17*	.16*	.13*	.10	.06	.07	.14*
16. School transitionsb	.04	.09	.09	.12	.13*	.06	.08	.07
17. Community violenceb	.24*	.33*	.32*	.29*	.31*	.16*	.05	.14*
18. Intellectual functioningb	−.25*	−.10	−.05	.02	.03	−.08	−.01	−.09
M	51.79	46.43	46.02	48.98	49.07	51.52	61.04	62.49
SD	10.49	10.07	9.75	9.88	10.17	12.22	10.80	12.02

Note.

^aDichotomous risk variable.

^bContinuous risk variable. For dichotomous variables, (1 = presence; 0 = absence), we computed the point-biserial coefficient. RCMAS: Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. TSCC: Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. DEP: Depression. ANG: Anger. PTS: Post Traumatic Stress. DIS: Dissociation. SC: Sexual Concerns. CBCL: Child Behavior Checklist. Int.: Internalizing. Ext.: Externalizing. Correlations and means and standard deviations were computed using T-scores.

^*p < .05.