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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 6.

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

Belief
 Evaluation
Item description LRA HRA d F ES r int LRA HRA d F ES r int
Unable to get a job 0.98 −0.21 1.19 162.55*** .14 −.43 −1.55 −1.44 0.11 5.05* .01 .18
In trouble with law 1.15 0.31 0.84 92.60*** .08 −.33 −1.77 −1.50 0.27 33.96*** .03 .35
Mess up life 1.33 0.21 1.12 151.34*** .13 −.45 −1.68 −1.45 0.23 21.84*** .02 .28
Be a bad role model 1.38 0.97 0.41 22.94*** .02 −.24 −1.62 −1.43 0.19 15.11*** .02 .27
Spend much money 1.17 0.25 0.92 94.82*** .09 −.40 −1.36 −1.33 0.03 0.17 .00 .14
Act against morals 1.15 0.21 0.94 107.00*** .10 −.42 −1.49 −1.25 0.24 19.34*** .02 .28
Not be good person 0.76 −0.48 1.24 167.22*** .14 −.42 −1.64 −1.40 0.24 23.92*** .02 .29
Do worse in school 1.25 0.32 0.93 102.28*** .09 −.38 −1.67 −1.46 0.21 20.83*** .02 .29
Be a loser 1.00 −0.34 1.34 190.86*** .16 −.48 −1.63 −1.41 0.22 17.59*** .02 .22
Look stupid 1.14 0.03 1.11 154.19*** .13 −.41 −1.45 −1.24 0.21 14.47*** .01 .19

Note. d = absolute difference between LRA and HRA; ES = effect size (η2); rint = correlation with intention. Beliefs and evaluations range from −2 to +2.

*

p < .05.

***

p < .001.