Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics: Proportion of Each Locality-Race Group at Risk in Kindergarten
| Risk Factor | p-valuea | % Yes (N missing) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban African American (N=373) | Urban White (N=185) | Rural White (N=192) | ||
| Child | ||||
| Cognitive | <.001 | 52.7 (41) | 39.0 (21) | 26.6 (15) |
| Social-Cognitive | <.001 | 50.0 (5) | 30.1 (2) | 25.7 (1) |
| Behavioral | .351 | 32.9 (5) | 27.9 (2) | 28.1 (0) |
| Family | ||||
| Single Parent | <.001 | 66.1 (4) | 27.6 (0) | 17.2 (0) |
| Demographic | <.001 | 50.1 (0) | 28.1 (0) | 28.1 (0) |
| Stress/Support | .384 | 31.8 (2) | 32.1 (1) | 26.5 (7) |
| Parent History of Problems | .004 | 61.0 (37) | 67.5 (0) | 36.8 (18) |
| Maternal Depression | <.001 | 47.5 (0) | 36.8 (0) | 34.4 (0) |
| Marital | <.001 | 16.8 (3) | 26.6 (1) | 34.9 (0) |
| Parenting | ||||
| Parenting Behavior | .002 | 45.7 (5) | 34.8 (1) | 31.9 (1) |
| Community | ||||
| Neighborhood | .019 | 22.0 (0) | 14.1 (0) | 14.1 (0) |
| Classroom | .307 | 30.7 (60) | 38.0 (48) | 34.1 (16) |
| School | .069 | 19.8 (9) | 20.3 (8) | 28.0 (3) |
a
Chi-square test of group differences in proportion reporting risk factor