Table 4.

Results of the Growth Curve Model for God-mediated Control

	Unconditional growth		Model 1		Model 2
	b	95% CI	b	95% CI	b	95% CI
Intercept	10.25***	[10.16, 10.33]	10.44***	[10.33, 10.54]	10.42***	[10.32, 10.52]
Linear age slope	–0.002	[–0.004, 0.001]	0.01	[–0.01, 0.02]	0.01	[–0.003, 0.03]
Race (White)			–0.52***	[–0.62, –0.41]	–0.50***	[–0.61, –0.40]
X Linear age slope			–0.01	[–0.02, 0.01]	–0.01	[–0.03, 0.01]
Gender (female)			0.23***	[0.12, 0.33]	0.24***	[0.14, 0.35]
X Linear age slope			–0.01	[–0.02, 0.01]	–0.01	[–0.03, 0.01]
Education			–0.02**	[–0.04, –0.01]	–0.03**	[–0.04, –0.01]
X Linear age slope			0.002	[–0.0004, 0.004]	0.002	[–0.0003, 0.004]
Religious commitment			0.48***	[0.44, 0.52]	0.46***	[0.42, 0.50]
X Linear age slope			–0.002	[–0.01, 0.004]	–0.001	[–0.01, 0.01]
Race X Commitment			0.19***	[0.14, 0.24]	0.21***	[0.16, 0.26]
X Linear age slope			0.01*	[0.002, 0.02]	0.01*	[0.004, 0.02]
Personal control					0.06***	[0.04, 0.09]
X Linear age slope					–0.004*	[–0.01, –0.001]
Race X Personal control					–0.03	[–0.07, 0.01]
X Linear age slope					0.01*	[0.0002, 0.01]
Random effects variance
Residual	1.87***	[1.76, 1.98]	1.52***	[1.43, 1.62]	1.51***	[1.42, 1.61]
Intercept	1.90***	[1.71, 2.10]	0.33***	[0.24, 0.41]	0.32***	[0.24, 0.41]
BIC	16,419		14,390		14,391

Notes: BIC = Bayesian Information Criteria; CI = confidence interval.

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.