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Published in final edited form as: Am J Community Psychol. 2013 Sep;52(0):27–40. doi: 10.1007/s10464-013-9574-6

Table 6.

Hierarchical Linear Model of Child Adjustment (SDQ) and Problem Behavior

	Outcome Variable
Explanatory Variable	Problem Behavior^a	SDQ Total^b
Gender	−0.43 ^**	−0.16 ^*
Grade	−0.38 ^**	−0.18 ^**
Willingness to Intervene	−0.42 ^**	−0.04
Connectedness	−0.26 ^*	−0.24 ^**
Variance Components
Level 2	0.383	0.001
Overdispersion/Level 1	1.190	0.104
Total	N. A.	0.104
Intraclass Correlation (null model)	0.032^c	0.017
R Squared	0.185^c	0.175
Improvement over null model (Wald, 4 df)	60.68 ^**	39.95 ^**
N	214	214

Semi-standardized Poisson regression coefficients, calibrated as change in log(Y) per standard deviation of X.

Standardized regression coefficients.

For problem behavior, intraclass correlation and R Squared are from a corresponding linear model because these indices do not apply to the Poisson model.

p < .05,

^**

p < .01