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Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 1999 May 1;61(2):306–319. doi: 10.2307/353750

Table 2.

Time 1 Mean Scores of Mothers’ Parenting, Attitudes, and Mother-Adolescent Communication for Families with Never-Pregnant, Pregnant, and Parenting Teens

Mothers’ Scores	Never Pregnant	Pregnant	Parenting	F(2,171)
Monitoring	3.59^{ab T}	3.28^aT	3.30^b	8.64^***
Achievement expectations for older sister	4.24^{ab T}	3.93^a	3.92^b	4.29^*
Achievement expectations for younger siblings	4.38	4.17	4.17	2.75 (df = 2,237)
Acceptance of teenage sex	1.62	1.57^T	1.86	1.26
Acceptance of teenage childbearing	1.19^b	1.41	1.45^b	2.34^†
Problems with teenage childbearing	4.54^b	4.29	4.17^b	6.08^**
Importance of childbearing	1.60^b	1.91	2.03^b	2.45^†
Age at life course transitions	22.84^b	22.61	21.83^b	3.70^*
Communication with older sister	4.06	4.21	4.27	1.66
Communication with younger siblings	3.81^T	3.90^T	4.04	0.84 (df = 2,237)

Note: Means within the same row with the same letter superscript were significantly different (p < .05). The range of all scores (except age at life course transitions) was 1–5. The sample size of mothers of never-pregnant teens was 94. The sample size of mothers of pregnant teens was 32. The sample size of mothers of parenting teens was 48.

Contrast between the mothers of never-pregnant teens and the mothers of pregnant teens.

Contrast between the mothers of never-pregnant teens and the mothers of parenting teens.

The Time 1 score and Time 2 score were significantly different (p < .05).

^†

p <.06.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.