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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2012 Mar 12;48(3):703–717. doi: 10.1037/a0027304

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Each Measure

Male Female European
American
African
American

Indicator M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Socioeconomic status 0.00 0.72 0.03 0.70 −0.03 0.73 0.33 0.57 −0.37 0.72
Peer Marginalization
      Peer nominations 0.04 0.95 0.17 0.99 −0.10 0.88 0.06 0.98 0.12 0.93
      Teacher report 1.89 0.85 2.08 0.90 1.68 0.75 1.85 0.90 2.03 0.85
Family Attenuation
      Positive relations 3.47 0.86 3.48 0.84 3.45 0.88 3.43 0.80 3.57 0.90
      Parental monitoring 3.96 0.80 3.88 0.79 4.06 0.79 4.09 0.70 3.90 0.86
      Family conflict 0.90 0.77 0.87 0.77 0.94 0.77 0.78 0.62 1.06 0.94
*Pubertal Maturation 0.69 .29 0.60 0.30 0.80 0.23 0.66 0.29 0.72 0.29
Deviant Peer Clustering
      Teacher report 1.87 1.22 2.00 1.29 1.72 1.13 1.63 1.06 2.01 1.29
      Self-report 1.39 1.03 1.39 1.01 1.40 1.04 1.19 0.76 1.48 1.05
      Counselor report 1.24 0.51 1.30 0.58 1.18 0.40 1.08 0.31 1.36 0.50
      Peer nominations 1.65 4.13 2.17 5.20 1.10 2.43 0.98 2.27 1.85 2.80
Adolescent Sexual Promiscuity
      Early sexual activity 0.97 1.05 0.97 1.07 0.96 1.03 0.73 0.94 1.20 1.11
      Number of partners 0.93 2.32 1.10 2.55 0.76 2.05 0.75 2.23 1.28 2.99
      Unsafe sex 0.03 0.18 0.03 0.17 0.04 0.19 0.04 0.19 0.03 0.16
Adolescent Problem Behavior
      Parent report 3.36 3.20 3.46 3.31 3.26 3.09 3.26 3.04 3.24 3.06
      Self-report 1.30 0.39 1.33 0.38 1.27 0.39 1.31 0.41 1.27 0.35
      Teacher report 2.59 1.79 2.84 1.88 2.34 1.66 2.21 1.57 3.01 1.92
Early Adult Progeny
      Number of pregnancies 1.02 1.51 0.88 1.47 1.16 1.54 0.63 1.29 1.53 1.77
      Number of children 0.43 0.75 0.31 0.64 0.56 0.83 0.23 0.59 0.66 0.84

Note.

*

The pubertal maturation variable was computed on a non-random subsample and was only used for post hoc analyses.