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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2012 Apr 1;34(4):814–825. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.01.008

Table 5. OLS and Residualized Change Regressions of Long-term Material Hardship and Child Behavior.

Externalizing Internalizing Positive Behavior
OLS RC OLS RC OLS RC

β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE β SE
Material Hardship Index
 One Wave 0.16** 0.05 0.12* 0.05 0.22*** 0.05 0.25*** 0.05 −0.03 0.05 −0.02 0.05
 Two Waves 0.40*** 0.05 0.29*** 0.05 0.38*** 0.05 0.37*** 0.05 −0.03 0.05 −0.04 0.05

Dimensions
 Difficulty Paying Bills
   One Wave 0.20*** 0.06 0.16** 0.05 0.20*** 0.06 0.18** 0.06 −0.04 0.05 −0.01 0.05
   Two Waves 0.30*** 0.07 0.21** 0.06 0.30*** 0.06 0.29*** 0.06 −0.04 0.06 −0.07 0.06
 Utilities Shut Off
   One Wave 0.20*** 0.06 0.11* 0.05 0.24*** 0.06 0.18** 0.06 −0.05 0.05 −0.10 0.06
   Two Waves 0.40*** 0.08 0.28*** 0.08 0.15 0.08 0.13 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.01 0.07
 Housing Instability
   One Wave 0.17* 0.07 0.12 0.07 0.19** 0.07 0.16* 0.07 0.02 0.06 0.02 0.06
   Two Waves 0.36** 0.12 0.25 0.13 0.33* 0.13 0.35* 0.14 0.17 0.11 0.09 0.12
 Medical Hardship
   One Wave 0.03 0.09 0.04 0.09 0.20* 0.09 0.23* 0.10 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.08
   Two Waves 0.04 0.18 0.08 0.22 −0.10 0.18 −0.05 0.19 0.07 0.20 0.18 0.21
 Food Hardship
   One Wave 0.24** 0.07 0.14 0.07 0.25** 0.08 0.21** 0.08 −0.02 0.07 0.00 0.07
   Two Waves 0.15 0.13 0.10 0.12 0.20 0.14 0.20 0.15 −0.16 0.12 −0.11 0.13

Note: Not shown here, the models include controls for income-to-needs, age, race, mother lived with both parents at age 15, education, relationship status, multiple partner fertility, child gender, child low birth weight, mother mental and physical health, substance abuse, impulsivity, mother cognitive ability, social support, and city of residence. The residualized change models also include children's scores on earlier measures of the outcome in the model not shown here.

***

p<0.001;

**

p<0.01;

*

p<0.05