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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: Child Maltreat. 2013 Apr 28;18(2):98–107. doi: 10.1177/1077559513483549

Table 1.

Sample descriptives by race/ethnicity

Non-Hispanic
White
n=843 (52.7%)
African
American
n=449 (28.1%)
Latino
n=308 (19.3%)
Total Sample
N=1600

N (%) M (SE) N (%) M (SE) N (%) M (SE) N (%) M (SE)
Youth Gender
  Female 433(46.9) 231(50.7) 172(60.1) 836(50.9)
Youth Age 8.8(0.15) 9.1(0.28) 8.6(0.26) 8.8(0.11)
Parent Education
  No HS diploma 208(27.7) 137(30.9) 125(30.7) 470(29.2)
  HS diploma and above 635(72.3) 312(69.1) 183(69.3) 1130(70.8)
Maltreatment Exposure
Physical Assault
  None 246(28.1) 125(22.1) 91(26.2) 462(26.0)
  Minor Physical Assault 520(65.0) 232(55.9) 163(58.5) 915(61.1)
  Severe/Very Severe Physical Assault 70(7.0) a 87(22.0) a 51(15.3) 208(12.9)
Psychological Aggression 22.0(1.50) 21.2(1.56) 15.8(2.20) 20.5(1.08)
Neglect 3.1(0.42) 4.7(0.71) 3.1(0.78) 3.5(0.34)
Behavior Problems
  Internalizing behaviors 55.1(0.70) 53.2(0.98) 53.2(1.26) 54.2(0.60)
  Externalizing behaviors 58.5(0.94) 58.3(1.04) 55.6(1.49) 57.8(0.73)
Specialty Mental Health
Service Use
  No 607(78.2) 384(89.1) 256(87.7) 1247(83.2)
  Yes 236(21.8)b 65(10.9)b 52(12.3) 353(16.8)

Note. Unweighted N reported. Weighted % reported in parentheses. Cells that share the same superscript are significantly different from one another (p=.01). HS=High School.