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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Intellect Disabil Res. 2011 Jan 18;55(3):324–338. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01363.x

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

TD % or mean (SD) ID % or mean (SD) χ2 (d.f.) or t (d.f.) F (Levine’s test for equality of variances)
Child gender (% male) 55.9 59.4 χ2 =0.22 (1)
Child race (% minority) 38.7 46.4 χ2 =1.02 (1)
Family income (% <$50 000) 36.0 50.7 χ2 =3.78 (1)
Stanford–Binet IQ 104.3 (11.8) 60.0 (14.2) 22.62*** (178) 3.03
Mother grade completed 15.7 (2.3) 14.4 (2.0) 3.85*** (178) 1.89
Father grade completed 15.7 (3.0) 14.6 (2.7) 2.23* (156) 0.38
Mother positive affect 2.26 (0.72) 2.01 (0.76) 2.19* (178) 0.21
Father positive affect 2.11 (0.86) 1.93 (0.83) 1.21 (144) 1.08
Mother negative affect 1.45 (0.61) 1.77 (0.80) −2.86** (116) 11.48**
Father negative affect 1.24 (0.47) 1.35 (0.43) −1.38 (144) 0.90
SSRS – cooperation 11.91 (3.27) 9.55 (3.56) 4.51*** (175) 1.45
SSRS – assertion 15.99 (2.75) 13.46 (3.88) 4.71*** (111) 9.99**
SSRS – responsibility 12.49 (3.21) 8.67 (3.83) 7.16*** (175) 2.49
SSRS – self-control 13.01 (3.21) 9.83 (3.69) 6.07*** (175) 1.02

Scores reported from child age 5 years except where otherwise noted. Child and mother variables had numbers of 111 TD and 69 ID except where otherwise noted. Father variables had numbers of 95 and 51 respectively.

P < 0.10,

*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01,

***

P < 0.001.

SSRS scores reported from child age 6 years, the first year they were collected. Three TD children did not have scores at age 6, so n = 108 TD and 69 ID for these analyses.

TD, typical development; ID, intellectual disability; SSRS, Social Skills Rating System.