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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2011 May 20;49(4):379–385. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.01.013

Table 3.

Sample descriptives and unadjusted associations of neighborhood-level building model predicting standardized depressive symptom score

Males (n=377) Females (n=418) Males (n=377) Females (n=418)
n /mean % / std n /mean % / std b p 95% CI b p 95% CI
Genotype
 SS 89 23.61 70 16.75 0.11 0.34 −0.11 0.32 0.24 0.11 −0.05 0.53
 SL 173 45.89 210 50.24 −0.10 0.27 −0.28 0.08 −0.04 0.72 −0.25 0.18
 LL 115 30.50 138 33.01 0.04 0.73 −0.16 0.24 −0.10 0.39 −0.33 0.13
Demographics
 Age 16.2 1.67 16.0 1.69 0.05 0.06 0.00 0.11 0.03 0.28 −0.03 0.10
 White 189 50.13 245 58.61 0.30 <0.01 0.50 0.10 −0.14 0.26 −0.37 0.10
 Black 61 16.18 55 13.16 0.28 0.04 0.02 0.55 0.07 0.69 −0.27 0.41
 Hispanic 77 20.42 69 16.51 −0.09 0.47 −0.35 0.16 −0.07 0.68 −0.38 0.25
 Asian 25 6.63 19 43.18 0.28 0.16 −0.11 0.66 0.72 0.01 0.15 1.29
 Other 25 6.63 30 7.18 0.52 0.01 0.13 0.92 0.13 0.57 −0.32 0.58
Family structure
 Two biological parents 235 62.33 246 58.85 0.24 0.02 0.45 0.04 0.37 <0.01 0.60 0.14
 One biological parent 119 31.56 135 32.30 0.26 0.02 0.04 0.47 0.29 0.02 0.05 0.54
 Other family structure 23 6.10 37 8.85 0.03 0.88 −0.39 0.46 0.31 0.13 −0.09 0.72
SES
 Parent is a high school graduate 328 87.00 337 80.62 0.43 <0.01 0.72 0.14 −0.11 0.45 −0.41 0.18
 Social support 4.0 0.53 4.0 0.59 0.59 <0.0001 0.75 0.44 0.86 <0.0001 1.02 0.71
Neighborhood-level building condition
 Poor neighborhood-level building condition* 181 48.01 200 47.85 0.36 <0.001 0.18 0.55 0.21 0.07 −0.02 0.43
17-item CESD
 Depressive Symptoms Score 9.5 5.88 11.4 7.42
Levels of depression
 Minimal (0–18) 347 92.04 356 85.17
 Somewhat elevated (19–28) 28 7.43 49 11.72
Very elevated (29–51) 2 0.53 13 2.11

Significant effect estimates at 5% level are bold-faced

b is the model parameter estimate, p is the p-value, and CI is the parameter estimate confidence interval

*

Results for unadjusted models reflect the association between poor building conditions and depressive symptom score