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Published in final edited form as: Early Hum Dev. 2017 Jan 15;105:11–15. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.01.003

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for demographic and maternal psychological variables

	Total Sample (n=232)		Birth Record (n=151)		No Birth record (n=81)
Demographic Factors	N	%	N	%	N	%
Single Parent	114	49.1	79	52.0	35	43.8
Public Assistance^a	104	45.0	71	47.0	33	41.3
African American	151	65.1	102	67.1	49	61.3
Psychological Factors	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
DLC^b	3.27	2.37	3.35	2.43	3.18	2.25
PSS^c	2.68	6.27	23.00	5.51	22.35	5.08
BDI-II^d	6.90	5.37	7.35	8.09	6.45	8.40

^a

Received a form of public assistance (e.g., food stamps, Medicaid, monies from public aid)

^b

Difficult Life Circumstances Scale

^c

Perceived Stress Scale

^d

Beck Depression Inventory-II