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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2013 May;41(4):515–529. doi: 10.1007/s10802-012-9692-x

Table 1. Description of measures.

Assessment period # items Mean (SD) N
Productive Activity – EC 15 months 8 6.96 (1.38) 924
36 months 11 7.19 (2.50) 903
Productive Activity – MC 3rd grade 21 14.85 (3.34) 893
Productive Activity – EA 5th grade 18 14.32 (3.05) 919
Sensitivity – EC 15 months 3 9.45 (1.63) 930
24 months 3 9.42 (1.74) 902
36 months 3 17.32 (2.67) 901
Sensitivity – MC 1st grade 3 16.92 (3.03) 864
3rd grade 3 16.40 (2.45) 875
Sensitivity – EA 5th grade 3 16.55 (2.43) 851
Harshness – EC 15 months 5 1.62 (.83) 919
36 months 6 1.83 (1.14) 894
Harshness – MC 3rd grade 7 .77 (1.01) 894
Harshness – EA 5th grade 5 .31 (.67) 919
Monitoring age 15 11 3.55 (.31) 935
Self-control age 15 10 14.04 (3.46) 937
Externalizing – EC 24 months (mother) 26 52.33 (8.34 914
36 months (mother) 26 51.03 (8.33) 910
36 months (teacher) 26 46.10 (9.73) 630
54 months (teacher) 40 49.80 (9.53) 768
Externalizing – MC 1st grade (mother) 33 48.54 (9.67) 883
3rd grade (mother) 33 47.17 (9.72) 917
1st grade (teacher) 34 50.57 (8.66) 860
3rd grade (teacher) 34 51.34 (9.21) 857
Externalizing – EA 5th grade (mother) 33 45.72 (9.94) 923
6th grade (mother) 33 45.88 (10.05) 937
5th grade (teacher) 34 50.78 (9.12) 834
6th grade (teacher) 34 49.99 (9.10) 787
Externalizing– age 15 age 15 (youth report) 30 49.31 (9.91) 956

Measures with multiple indicators were transformed to z-scores and the mean of the z-scores were used in analyses. EC = early childhood; MC = middle childhood; EA = Early Adolescence