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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2010;39(5):667–680. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2010.501286

Table 2.

The statistical significance (5%) level of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and witnessed violence in explaining youth engagement in either alcohol use or sexual intercourse or bothab.

Model 1
SA Only
Either Both
Model 2
SA & PA
Either Both
Model 3
SA & EA
Either Both
Model 4
SA & Neglect
Either Both
Model 5
SA & WV
Either Both
Abuse/Violence
Block 1
Child Genderc ns S-
Block 2
Sexual Abuse (SA)d S+ S+
Block 3
Physical Abuse (PA)e ns S+
Emotional Abuse (EA)1f ns ns
Emotional Abuse (EA) 2 g ns S+
Neglect (N) 1h ns ns
Neglect (N) 2 i ns ns
Witnessed Violence (WV)1 j ns ns
Witnessed Violence (WV) 2 k ns ns
a

2-way interactions of SA x Gender and SA x respective maltreatment or witnessed violence experience were entered on Block 4 of Models 2 to 5; however, since none of the 2-way interactions were statistically significant they were not included in the Table.

b

Site was not covaried in analyses as already controlled in trajectory analyses;

c

boy = 0, girl = 1;

d

Curvilinear group relative to low group;

e

High Level Remit relative to no allegations;

f

Low Level Chronic relative to No Allegations;

f

High Level Remit relative to No Allegations;

g

Low Level Chronic relative to No Allegations;

h

High Level Remit relative to No Allegations;

i

Low Level Chronic relative to No Allegations;

j

High Level Chronic relative to No Allegations note: S = p < .05; ; (+ or – reflects direction of association); n.s. = not significant