. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2011 Jan;35(1):78–86. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.09.001

Table 3.

Multivariate Relations Between Time Living with Kin and Youth Outcomes

	T2 Age	Gender (M vs. F)	Ethnicity C/H vs. AA	Time 1 Beh. Probs.	Total years in care	No. of placements	^†Time in Kin Care
Dependent Variables	β/OR	β/OR	β/OR	β/OR	β/OR	β/OR	β/OR	R²/χ²
Risk Behaviors
Delinquency	.32^*	−.22^*	.04	.14^t	−.32^*	.38^*	.22^*	.31^*
Sexual	.54^*	−.06	.01	.21^*	−.26^*	.29^*	.31^*	.43^*
Self-Destructive	.05	.11	−.19^*	.15^t	−.19^*	.24^*	.07	.15^*
Substance Use	.35^*	−.15^*	−.12	.15^t	−.33^*	.28^*	.26^*	.28^*
Total Risk Behavior	.45^*	−.11	−.06	.21^*	−.34^*	.31^*	.27^*	.38^*
Life-Course Outcomes
Tickets/Arrests	2.4^* (1.7–3.3)	1.4 (0.6–3.2)	1.7 (0.7–4.2)	1.0 (0.97–1.0)	.69^* (0.5–0.9)	1.1^* (1.0–1.2)	1.4^* (1.1–1.6)	46.0^*
Suspensions	1.4^* (1.0–1.8)	3.8^* (1.7–8.2)	2.4^* (1.0–5.5)	1.0 (0.98–1.0)	.92 (0.8–1.1)	1.0 (0.97–1.1)	1.1^t (0.98–1.3)	25.2^*
Grades	.10	.04	.07	−.04	.31^*	−.07	−.24^*	.10
Symptomatology
Externalizing Problems	−.03	.25^*	.11	.10	−.18^t	.03	.15	.13^*
Internalizing Problems	.01	.15^t	.02	.07	−.19^t	.07	.07	.06
Total Behavior Problems	−.03	.21^*	.05	.13	−.21^*	.03	.12	.10
Total Competence	−.10	−.19^*	.13	−.10	.17	−.15	−.13	.11^*
Trauma Symptomatology	−.00	.22^*	−.05	.03	−.20^*	.09	.17^t	.09

Note. Gender: 0 = male, 1 = female; Ethnicity: 0 = Caucasian and Hispanic, 1 = African American

^†

OR estimated for 10% difference

β/OR = Beta or Odds Ratio, depending on the type of dependent variable. Values shown for Tickets/Arrests and Suspensions are odds ratios, all other values are beta coefficients.

R²/χ² = R² values are for all overall models except Tickets/Arrests and Suspensions where the chi square values are given.

p < .05;

p < .10