. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 20.

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

Table 3.

Time 2 Mean Scores of Mothers’ Parenting, Attitudes, and Mother-Adolescent Communication for Families with Never-Pregnant and Parenting Teens

Mothers’ Scores	Never Pregnant	Was Pregnant, Now Parenting	Parenting	F(2,142)
Monitoring	3.27^aT	2.97^{ac T}	3.16^c	5.96^**
Achievement expectations for older sister	4.73^{ab T}	4.03^ac	3.73^bc	8.83^***
Achievement expectations for younger siblings	4.35	4.26	4.18	0.93 (df = 2,195)
Acceptance of teenage sex	1.77	2.15^T	1.70	3.04^†
Acceptance of teenage childbearing	1.35	1.40	1.37	0.64
Problems with teenage childbearing	4.39^a	4.14^ac	4.32^c	7.60^***
Importance of childbearing	1.50^ab	1.97^a	1.89^b	3.97^*
Age at life course transitions	23.12^b	22.95	22.30^b	3.13^*
Communication with older sister	3.97	4.21	4.27	0.11
Communication with younger siblings	3.51^T	3.41^T	3.81	1.36 (df = 2,195)

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 78. The sample size of mothers of teens who were pregnant at Time 1 and parenting at Time 2 was 28. The sample size of mothers of parenting teens was 39.

Contrast between the mothers of never-pregnant teens and the mothers of teens who were initially pregnant.

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

Contrast between the mothers of teens who were initially pregnant 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.