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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Soc Psychol. 2006 Jul 6;34(6):1229–1250. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02005.x

Table 5.

Mean Differences Between Low-Risk Adolescents (LRA) and High-Risk Adolescents (HRA) on Outcome Beliefs and Their Evaluations: Social Costs

Belief
 Evaluation
Item description LRA HRA d F ES r int LRA HRA d F ES r int
Lose friends 0.80 −0.61 1.41 211.50*** .17 −.44 −1.73 −1.60 0.13 8.57** .01 .17
Feel lonely 0.77 −0.32 1.09 139.52*** .12 −.40 v1.43 −1.35 0.08 2.15 .00 .17
Lose partner 0.85 −0.47 1.32 189.95*** .16 −.43 −1.41 −1.41 0.00 0.00 .00 .09
Lose friends’ respect 0.94 −0.40 1.34 195.48*** .16 −.44 −1.67 −1.45 0.22 21.70*** .02 .24
Destroy relationships 1.13 −0.02 1.15 157.38*** .14 −.47 −1.79 −1.61 0.18 21.37*** .02 .28
Upset parents 1.48 1.06 0.42 23.68*** .02 −.24 −1.51 −1.31 0.20 14.68*** .01 .26

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 < .01.

***

p < .001.