Table 3.

Parameter Estimates and Standard Errors for Conditional Growth Mixture Model

	Substantiation
	Class 1 Elevated Severity				Class 2 Lowered Severity
Covariates	Estimates for the intercept	S.E.	Estimates for the slope	S.E.	Estimates for the intercept	S.E	Estimates for the slope	S.E
Gender	0.01	0.03	−0.02*	0.01	−0.03	0.04	0.02	0.01
Minority status	−0.13*	0.03	−0.02*	0.01	−0.02	0.05	0.01	0.01
Age	−0.03*	0.01	0.01	0.01	−0.04*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01
Number of prior reports	−0.01*	0.01	0.01*	0.01	−0.02*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01
Maltreatment type
Abuse	0.07	0.04	−0.03*	0.01	−0.47*	0.09	0.08*	0.02
Neglect	−0.12*	0.06	−0.01	0.01	−0.09	0.08	0.01	0.01
Caregiver loss	−0.54*	0.09	0.14*	0.03	−1.16*	0.11	0.05	0.04
Substance abuse	0.54*	0.03	0.01	0.01	0.29*	0.05	0.05*	0.01
	Severity
	Class 1				Class 2
Covariates	Estimates for the intercept	S.E.	Estimates for the slope	S.E.	Estimates for the intercept	S.E	Estimates for the slope	S.E
Gender	0.04*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01	0.06*	0.01	−0.02*	0.01
Minority status	−0.02*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01	−0.05*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01
Age	0.02*	0.01	−0.01*	0.01	0.01*	0.01	−0.01	0.01
Number of prior reports	0.01	0.01	0.01*	0.01	0.01*	0.01	0.01*	0.01
Type of maltreatment
Abuse	n/a	n/a	−0.02*	−0.02*	n/a	n/a	0.22*	0.01
Neglect	n/a	n/a	−0.11*	0.01	n/a	n/a	0.13*	0.01
Caregiver loss	−0.06	0.04	0.01	0.01	−0.04	0.05	−0.01	0.02
Substance abuse	0.04*	0.01	0.02*	0.01	0.14*	0.02	0.04*	0.01