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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Dev. 2012 Feb;21(1):88–108. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00615.x

Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviations (in Parentheses) of Ethnicity, SES, and Gender differences.

Variable Ethnicity SES Gender
African-American White Free/reduced lunch Paid Girls Boys
Sadness 0.11 (.10) 0.15 (.12)** 0.14 (.10) 0.12 (.10)* 0.12 (.11) 0.11 (.10)
Worry 0.12 (.09) 0.12 (.09) 0.12 (.08) 0.13 (.09) 0.12 (.09) 0.12 (.08)
Afraid 0.11 (.08) 0.15 (.10)** 0.12 (.08) 0.13 (.09) 0.12 (.09) 0.12 (.08)
Cry 0.11 (.14) 0.14 (.13) 0.11 (.08) 0.12 (.16) 0.12 (.14) 0.11 (.13)
Self-Internalizing 0.83 (.33) 0.65 (.36)*** 0.82 (.34) 0.78 (.33) 0.84 (.32) 0.78 (.35)
Parent-Externalizing 1.72 (.36) 1.80 (.40) 1.76 (.38) 1.68 (.33) 1.65 (.36) 1.81 (.36)*
Teacher-Externalizing 2.19 (.89) 2.05 (1.02) 2.23 (.91) 2.05 (.93) 1.96 (.79) 2.36 (.98)**

Note. Results from MANOVAs. Standardized discriminant function coefficients for significant differences are as follows: Ethnicity: Sadness = -.47, Afraid = -.50, Self-Internalizing = .62; SES: Sadness = -.82; Gender: Parent-Externalizing = -.52, Teacher-Externalizing = -.69.

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.