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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Mar 1;40(2):586–601. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.013

Table 1.

Growth curves assessing gender and SES variation in the self-concept (N=769)

Fixed Effects	Self-Esteem				Mastery
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
	estimate	se	estimate	se	estimate	se	estimate	se
Intercept (9 ^thgrade)	12.757 ^***	.13	9.005 ^***	.59	9.557 ^***	.09	7.401 ^***	.43
Gender (boy=1)			1.682 ^***	.24			.535 ^**	.18
Background SES			−.131 ^†	.08			.009	.06
Educational promise			.323 ^***	.07			.213 ^***	.05
First two-parent family			.433 ^†	.24			.169	.18
Slope (yearly change)	.215 ^***	.04	.639 ^**	.21	.242 ^***	.04	.531 ^**	.17
Gender (boy=1)			−.192 ^*	.09			.042	.07
Background SES			.060 ^*	.03			.050 ^*	.02
Educational promise			−.033	.02			−.033 ^†	.02
First two-parent family			−.111	.09			−.071	.07
Intercept (12 ^thgrade)	13.398 ^***	.13	10.921 ^***	.63	10.280 ^***	.10	8.994 ^***	.46
Gender (boy=1)			1.105 ^***	.25			.662 ^***	.19
Background SES			.048	.08			.160 ^**	.06
Educational promise			.223 ^**	.07			.114 ^*	.05
First two-parent family			.101	.26			−.044	.19
Random Effects
Initial Status	8.315 ^***	.63	7.209 ^***	.58	3.445 ^***	.33	3.220 ^***	.32
Rate	.395 ^***	.08	.375 ^***	.08	.171 ^***	.06	.167 ^***	.05
Level 1 error	5.074 ^***	.19	5.083 ^***	.19	3.684 ^***	.14	3.684 ^***	.14

Deviance	15049		14995		13676		13659
AIC	15057		15003		13684		13667
BIC	15076		15021		13702		13685

^†

p<.10,

^*

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001 (two-tailed)