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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2016 Sep 9;79(1):75–93. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12349

Table 3.

Negative binomial regression results from models predicting self-reported delinquent behavior (unstandardized coefficients with standard errors beneath)

UNMARRIED MARRIED

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Family instability (vs. no transitions)
    1 family structure transition 0.017 0.016 −0.130 0.023 −0.054 0.084
0.165 0.163 0.152 0.313 0.318 0.397
    2 family structure transitions 0.316 0.276 0.011 −0.303 −0.389 −0.422
0.185 0.176 0.158 0.300 0.286 0.314
    3+ family structure transitions 0.360 * 0.349 * 0.033 −0.027 −0.051 −0.275
0.154 0.154 0.152 0.486 0.572 0.542
Maternal multipartner fertility (vs. single-partner fertility)
    1+ older siblings have different father −0.139 −0.153 −0.112 0.597 0.672 * 0.662 *
0.132 0.127 0.123 0.305 0.309 0.288
    1+ younger siblings have different father 0.245 0.155 0.006 −0.232 −0.240 −0.334
0.187 0.181 0.167 0.466 0.575 0.547
Family context at age 9
    No. of residential moves since birth 0.064 ** 0.054
0.023 0.043
    Maternal physical health 0.044 0.081
0.055 0.091
    Mother-child closeness −0.232 * 0.014
0.108 0.204
    Maternal harsh discipline 0.312 *** 0.297 *
0.055 0.147
    Income-to-needs ratio, ordinal (1-5) 0.028 −0.239
0.054 0.106
    Mother meets criteria for self-reported depression (CIDI-SF) −0.016 0.183
0.136 0.337
        Father involvement (vs. seen father in last 30 days)
        Father no longer living −0.027 −0.154
0.228 0.755
        Not seen father in last 30 days 0.016 0.277
0.112 0.345
        Paternal multipartner fertility (vs. single-partner fertility)
        Biological father has children with other partner 0.078 −0.172
0.133 0.366
        Unknown whether father has other children −0.043 −0.019
0.174 0.861
    Perceived financial support from kin 0.090 0.125
0.058 0.197
    Child has poor relationship quality with siblings 0.214 ** 0.202
0.078 0.130
Intercept 0.407 0.515 0.403 −1.138 5.705 * 6.448 * 5.746 * 4.226
1.695 1.722 1.646 1.493 2.664 2.788 2.766 2.776
Dispersion parameter (alpha) 1.09 1.104 1.081 0.823 1.271 1.252 1.230 1.078
0.15 0.1522 0.1493 0.1326 0.3303 0.33 0.3202 0.295

N 2288 2288 2288 2288 707 707 707 707
***

p<.001

**

p<.01

*

p<.05

p<.10

all models also control for child gender and age in months at age 9; mother's race/ethnicity, education and union status at child's birth; mother's number of partners prior to the birth; whether the birth was covered by Medicaid; mother's depression at age 1; child temperament at age 1; and whether any transition or multipartner fertility occurred in last two years; number of coresident full siblings at age 9.