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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2012 Aug 29;52(3):351–357. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.07.006

Table 2.

Family functioning score* by adolescent demographics

Family Functioning
Score
Mean (SD)**
p-value
Gender
    Female 17.7 (3.75)a 0.005
    Male 18.1 (3.33)b
Ethnicity/race, %
    White 17.9 (3.70)ab <0.001
    Black 18.5 (3.68)a
    Hispanic 18.1 (3.37)ab
    Asian 17.2 (3.26)c
    Native American 17.7 (3.47)bc
    Mixed/Other 17.8 (3.63)b
Socio-economic status, %
    Low 17.6 (3.54)a <.001
    Low-middle 17.7 (3.39)a
    Middle 18.3 (3.58)b
    High-middle 18.3 (3.79)b
    High 19.0 (3.53)c
Age
    Less than 14 years 18.0 (3.56) 0.244
    14 years or older 17.9 (3.57)
*

Scores are mean family functioning scores. The range is 6–24; higher scores indicate higher family functioning.

**

For categories within each demographic variable, means with differing letter superscriptsa,b,c are statistically different from one another (p-value <0.05).