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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2005 Winter;17(1):207–230. doi: 10.1017/s095457940505011x

Table 1.

Descriptive data on all variables presented by city and gender

Low Income
Affluent
Fcity Fgender FGender×City
Girls (n = 151)
Boys (n = 149)
Girls (n = 150)
Boys (n = 164)
M SD M SD M SD M SD
Depression 10.90 8.95 10.02 7.80 7.28 5.92 9.59 7.74 8.21** 1.03 5.04*
Anxiety 11.95 6.88 11.86 6.76 8.44 5.57 8.07 6.33 37.91*** 0.15 0.06
Cigarette, alcohol, marijuana use 0.70 1.80 0.27 0.65 0.24 0.65 0.79 1.83 0.06 0.19 14.10***
Delinquency 1.15 0.21 1.16 0.19 1.09 0.12 1.25 0.34 0.41 14.08*** 12.76***
Teacher-rated competence 1.54 3.11 −0.21 3.41 1.23 2.51 −0.76 3.71 1.78 39.29*** 0.13
Academic achievement 0.14 1.71 −0.15 1.98 0.44 1.71 −0.36 1.88 0.07 10.16** 2.29
Attachment to
 Mother 103.17 17.37 106.67 13.69 106.58 14.65 103.01 16.36 0.00 0.01 5.63*
 Father 96.69 19.47 99.73 20.84 99.16 18.12 99.88 16.50 0.58 0.83 0.24
Parental
 Criticism 9.37 3.75 8.66 3.75 7.60 3.65 8.31 4.02 9.69** 0.01 4.49*
 Expectations 16.15 4.60 16.33 4.58 12.91 4.41 14.21 4.88 40.01*** 2.36 2.07
 Values (personal character) 0.52 0.30 0.60 0.30 0.59 0.31 0.50 0.32 0.29 0.06 9.55**

χcity2
χgender2
χGender×City2

After-school supervision (%) 3.81* 1.22 0.00
 Adult 76.5 61.5 85.7 74.5
 No adult 23.5 38.5 14.3 25.5
Dinner-time supervision (%) 1.85 0.14 0.46
 Parent(s) 80.5 85.5 86.5 87.0
 No parent 19.5 14.5 13.5 13.0

Note: All mean comparisons based on pairwise deletion; F statistics with (1, 473) degrees of freedom were used for testing each effect. All percentage comparisons were tested with Wald’s χ2 in logistic regressions.

*

p ≤ .05.

**

p ≤ .01.

***

p ≤ .001.