Table 4.
Neighborhood disadvantage and multiple mediators predicting trajectories of violence.
| Girls | Boys | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Predictor | B | 95% CI | B | 95% CI |
| Intercept | 0.381** | (0.224, 0.539) | 0.405** | (0.238, 0.573) |
| Age | 0.101** | (0.054, 0.149) | 0.060† | (−0.009, 0.128) |
| Age-squared | −0.017** | (−0.024, −0.011) | −0.011* | (−0.02, −0.002) |
| Conventional valuesa,b | −0.142** | (−0.159, −0.125) | −0.176** | (−0.193, −0.158) |
| School activities | 0.033** | (0.014, 0.052) | 0.064** | (0.037, 0.091) |
| Religious engagement | −0.040** | (−0.057, −0.023) | −0.015 | (−0.034, 0.004) |
| Traditional goalsa | −0.192** | (−0.228, −0.157) | −0.248** | (−0.282, −0.214) |
| Psychological distressa | 0.099** | (0.086, 0.111) | 0.109** | (0.095, 0.122) |
| Neighborhood disadvantage | 0.006** | (0.004, 0.009) | 0.004** | (0.002, 0.007) |
Note. CI=confidence interval. Analyses controlled for race/ethnicity, parent education, family structure, the number of times the student moved during the five waves of data collection, the type of address geocoded and the precision of the geocode.
a
Significant mediator of the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and average girls’ violence trajectory.
b
Significant mediator for boys.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
†
p < .10.