Table 4.
Mean Differences Between Low-Risk Adolescents (LRA) and High-Risk Adolescents (HRA) on Outcome Beliefs and Their Evaluations: Positive Outcomes
| Belief |
Evaluation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item description | LRA | HRA | d | F | ES | r int | LRA | HRA | d | F | ES | r int |
| Be like coolest kids | −1.20 | −0.81 | 0.39 | 21.88*** | .02 | .19 | 0.68 | 0.39 | 0.29 | 11.61** | .01 | −.06 |
| Fit in with group | −0.92 | −0.29 | 0.63 | 48.69*** | .05 | .22 | 0.93 | 0.76 | 0.17 | 4.14* | .00 | −.04 |
| Good time friends | −0.79 | 0.37 | 1.16 | 171.19*** | .15 | .41 | 1.19 | 1.28 | 0.09 | 1.26 | .00 | .04 |
| Be like other teens | −0.36 | 0.32 | 0.68 | 57.98*** | .05 | .15 | 0.01 | −0.20 | 0.21 | 8.10** | .01 | −.01 |
| Good time | −0.86 | 0.39 | 1.25 | 183.51*** | .15 | .44 | 1.26 | 1.30 | 0.04 | 0.25 | .00 | .03 |
| Away from problems | −0.93 | −0.48 | 0.45 | 20.21*** | .02 | .15 | 0.30 | 0.56 | 0.26 | 8.25** | .01 | .09 |
| More creative | −1.11 | −0.21 | 0.90 | 111.08*** | .10 | .35 | 1.07 | 1.10 | 0.03 | 0.12 | .00 | −.01 |
Note. d = absolute difference between LRAs and HRAs; ES = effect size (η2); rint = correlation with intention. Beliefs and evaluations range from −2 to +2.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.