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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Res Adolesc. 2015 Mar 13;26(3):403–417. doi: 10.1111/jora.12200

Table 2. Bivariate Correlations Between Independent Variables and Severity of Depressive Symptoms.

DV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10
Depression (DV)
1. Male .050
2. Age .092 .039
3. Family maltreatment .265*** -.055 .011
4. Traumatic stressorsa .203*** -.086 .017 .380***
Traumatic stressors
5. Direct physical violence .261*** .215* -.020 .444*** .682***
6. Direct sexual violence .092 -.398*** -.000 .431*** .543*** .493***
7. Indirect exposure .052 -.219* .013 .255** .631*** .484*** .331**
8. Witnessing in person .205*** .054 -.006 .573*** .819*** .769*** .406*** .627***
9. Stressful life events .215*** .046 .073 .306*** .308*** .209*** .096 .178*** .268***
10. Monosubstance useb .132* .119 .075 .080 .108* .226* -.026 .100 .149 .189***
11. Polysubstance usec .182*** .213+ -.024 .275* -.018 .137 .028 -.170 .111 .140**

Note. DV, dependent variable. All correlations generated using pairwise deletion. Pearson's correlations were generated for ratio-scaled variables; Spearman's correlation, interval-scaled variables; tetrachoric correlations, nominal-scaled variables.

p < .01.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.

a

Count of number of traumatic stressors associated with street life.

b

Use of one substance during previous 30 days; no substance use was reference group.

c

Use of two or more substances during previous days; no substance use was reference group.