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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: Youth Violence Juv Justice. 2011 Nov 6;10(1):3–24. doi: 10.1177/1541204011422087

Table 2.

Hostile/Demoralizing Environment and Genetic Diversity as Predictors of Adopting the Street Code and Aggression (n=216).

Adopting the street code
Aggression
Model 1a
Model 1b
Model 2a
Model 2b
b β b β b β b β
Environment and gene
 Hostile/Demoralizing Environment (E) .86** (.30) .19 −.38 (.53) −.08 .30** (.11) .19 −.10 (.20) −.06
 Cumulative plasticity alleles (0–3) .22 (.33) .04 .23 (.33) .05 −.02 (.13) −.01 −.01 (.12) −.01
Two-way interaction
 Cumulative plasticity alleles x (E) .98** (.35) .32 .33* (.13) .31
Control variables
 Controlling early adolescent status .32** (.08) .28 .34** (.08) .30 .21 (.15) .10 .15 (.15) .07
 region (1 = South) 1.45* (.60) .16 1.42* (.59) .16 .02 (.22) .01 .02 (.22) .01
 Family SES .32 (.20) .11 .28 (.20) .09 −.04 (.08) −.04 −.05 (.07) −.05
 Famuly structure (1 = Single Families) .24 (.59) .03 .03 (.59) .00 .00 (.22) .00 −.07 (.22) −.02
Constant 10.49** (1.55) 10.32** (1.53) 1.03** (.26) 1.10 (.26)
Adjusted R2 .13 .16 .03 .05
R2 increase due to interaction .03** .03**

Note: Standard errors are in parentheses;

**

p≤.01;

*

p≤.05,

p<.10 (two-tailed tests).