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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2013 Oct 7;41(8):1021–1038. doi: 10.1002/jcop.21590

Table 2.

Effects of Community Microsystem Variables on Internalizing Psychopathology

Predictors Children Age 6–10 Years
Youth Age 11–17 Years
β SE Wald’s χ2 OR β SE Wald’s χ2 OR
Step 1
 Constant −3.27 .39 70.66(1) NA −1.89 .10 359.33(1) NA
 Perception of poverty .31 .18 2.82(1) 1.37 .19 .13 2.31(1) 1.21
 Gender(Male=1) .56 .28 3.83(1) 1.75 −.47 .19 5.79(1) .62*
Step 2
 Hurricane exposure .83 .33 6.31(1) 2.30* .15 .21 .49(1) 1.16
 Community violence-Personal .27 .24 1.27(1) 1.31 .80 1.18 .45(1) 2.23
 Community violence-Witnessed .11 .25 .19(1) 1.11 2.61 .60 18.74(1) 13.70*
 Neighborhood Climate −.67 .64 1.07(1) .51 −.41 .53 .60(1) .66
 Neighborhood Monitoring −.27 .58 .21(1) .75 .19 .48 .16(1) 1.21
Step 3
 Hurricane X Personal −.01 .61 .00(1) .99 .15 .21 .49(1) 1.16
 Hurricane X Witnessed .05 .62 .01(1) 1.06 −2.07 1.25 2.73(1) .12
 Hurricane X Climate −1.28 1.65 .60(1) .27 2.23 1.16 4.07(1) 10.46*
 Hurricane X Monitoring .174 1.34 .01(1) 1.19 .18 1.03 .03(1) 1.21
Test Step1 Step2 Step3 Step1 Step2 Step3
Overall model evaluation
 Likelihood ratio test 6.61(2)* 22.18(7)** 22.89(11)* 8.19(2)* 45.16(7)*** 57.43(11)***
 Score test 6.64(2)* 22.21(7)** 24.88(11)** 8.20(2)* 51.20(7)*** 64.63(11)***
 Wald test 6.49(2)* 20.77(7)** 22.24(11)* 8.09(2)* 44.48(7)*** 53.28(11)***
Goodness of fit test
 Hosmer & Lemeshow 5.49(4) 5.70(8) 4.86(8) 1.71(4) 4.26(8) 8.72(8)
G (step comparison) 15.57(5)* .71(4) 37.57(5)* 12.28(4)*

Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; ( ) = df. NA= not applicable.

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.