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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 7.

Mean Differences Between Low-Risk Adolescents (LRA) and High-Risk Adolescents (HRA) on Normative Beliefs and the Motivation to Comply

Belief
 Motivation to comply
Item description LRA HRA d F ES r int LRA HRA d F ES r int
Close friends −1.59 −0.42 1.17 310.37*** .26 .53 2.79 2.68 0.11 1.39 .00 .01
Parents −1.92 −1.61 0.31 56.07*** .06 .35 3.55 3.12 0.43 18.22*** .02 −.16
Partner −1.56 −0.40 1.16 298.23*** .25 .59 3.29 3.07 0.22 3.25 .00 −.00
Grandparents −1.92 −1.61 0.31 57.14*** .06 .33 3.60 3.16 0.44 16.24*** .02 −.10
Teacher −1.83 −1.62 0.21 21.46*** .02 .27 3.17 2.79 0.38 16.65*** .02 −.13
Peers −0.94 0.02 0.96 167.81*** .16 .34 2.29 2.24 0.05 5.37* .00 .04

Note. d = absolute difference between LRAs and HRAs; ES = effect size (η2); rint = correlation with intention. Normative belief items range = −2 to +2; motivation to comply items range = 1 to 5.

*

p < .05.

***

p < .001.