. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 16.

Published in final edited form as: J Youth Adolesc. 2010 Dec 8;40(9):1077–1090. doi: 10.1007/s10964-010-9614-6

Table 1.

Descriptive Information about Rural Youth’s Educational Outcomes over Time (N=3,312)

Variable	Mean (standard deviation)

	6^th grade	7^th grade	8^th grade	9^th grade	10^th grade	11^th grade	12^th grade
Belonging	1.44 (1.21)	1.25 (1.14)	1.12 (1.09)	1.10 (1.10)	1.03 (1.08)	1.04 (1.07)	1.08 (1.04)
Value of Education	2.87 (0.38)	2.85 (0.44)	2.83 (0.48)	2.77 (0.54)	2.81 (0.48)	2.82 (0.47)	2.84 (0.42)
Grades	1.65 (0.83)	1.65 (0.84)	1.70 (0.87)	1.68 (0.84)	1.72 (0.85)	1.69 (0.84)	1.93 (0.77)
Misbehavior	0.19 (0.42)	0.26 (0.52)	0.31 (0.56)	0.39 (0.67)	0.43 (0.67)	0.41 (0.61)	0.35 (0.51)
Activities	1.52 (1.42)	1.30 (1.24)	1.15 (1.15)	0.96 (1.14)	1.11 (1.18)	1.17 (1.20)	1.30 (1.19)

Note. Due to the cohort sequential design of the study, data are collapsed across waves and cohorts as applicable at each grade level, resulting in varying sample sizes.