Table 7.
Odds ratios of teacher-reported behavior problems at 60 months (n = 3,000 a ) using overall cutoffs.
Variable | Approaches to learning problems |
Internalizing problems |
Externalizing problems |
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Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | |
Late talker, 24 months | 2.27** | 2.10** | 1.06 | 1.01 | 1.52 | 1.56 |
Low receptive vocabulary, 48 months | 1.84* | 1.83* | 3.64*** | 3.62*** | 1.32 | 1.39 |
Late talker, 24 months × low vocabulary, 48 months | 0.90 | 0.85 | 1.11 | 1.06 | 0.57 | 0.52 |
African American | 1.25 | 0.96 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 1.78** | 1.41 |
Hispanic | 1.13 | 1.05 | 0.85 | 0.76 | 1.10 | 1.10 |
Other race | 1.24 | 1.04 | 0.52 | 0.49 | 1.88* | 1.49 |
Child age | 1.06 | 1.03 | 1.24 | 1.24 | 1.22 | 1.24 |
Male | 1.91*** | 1.86*** | 1.01 | 1.02 | 4.33*** | 4.18*** |
Lowest SES quintile | 4.53*** | 2.46* | 1.55 | 1.48 | 2.95*** | 1.53 |
Second-lowest SES quintile | 3.97*** | 2.71** | 1.15 | 1.04 | 1.94* | 1.21 |
Middle SES quintile | 2.79** | 2.09* | 1.50 | 1.43 | 1.45 | 1.01 |
Second-highest SES quintile | 1.93* | 1.65 | 1.11 | 1.14 | 1.32 | 1.14 |
Male × child age, 24 months | 1.28 | 1.29 | 1.06 | 1.09 | 0.94 | 0.91 |
Nonsingleton | 0.74 | 1.25 | 1.07 | |||
Mother's age > 35 years at child's birth | 0.56* | 0.67 | 0.69 | |||
Mother's age ≤ 18 years at child's birth | 0.87 | 1.07 | 1.05 | |||
Mother not married, 24 months | 1.22 | 0.73 | 1.78 | |||
Labor complications | 1.10 | 1.34 | 1.03 | |||
Obstetric procedures | 1.05 | 0.64* | 0.95 | |||
Medical risk factors in pregnancy | 1.38 | 1.73* | 2.08** | |||
Behavioral risk factors in pregnancy | 1.24 | 0.90 | 1.87* | |||
Moderately low birth weight | 1.23 | 0.77 | 0.73 | |||
Family member with mental illness | 1.24 | 1.11 | 1.15 | |||
Family member with learning disability | 1.32 | 0.76 | 1.10 | |||
Household has person with special needs | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.97 | |||
Maternal health problems, 9 months | 1.10 | 1.67 | 0.64 | |||
Mother depressed, 9 months | 1.18 | 0.44 | 1.02 | |||
Mother isolated, 9 months | 0.97 | 0.92 | 1.00 | |||
Parenting score, 24 months | 0.73*** | 0.86 | 0.83 | |||
Child in child care center (not Head Start) > 10 hr/week, 48 months | 1.31 | 0.66 | 1.72** | |||
Child in Head Start > 10 hr/week, 48 months | 1.45 | 0.90 | 1.36 | |||
Approaches to learning problems, 24 months | 1.25 | 0.68 | 1.63 | |||
Internalizing problems, 24 months | 0.79 | 1.67 | 0.37** | |||
Externalizing problems, 24 months | 1.20 | 1.06 | 1.51 | |||
Max-rescaled R 2 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.16 |
Tjur's R 2 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.09 |
Note. Child age and parenting scores are standardized with a mean of 0 and an SD of 1. SES = socioeconomic status.
Sample size is rounded to the nearest 50 per Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort confidentiality requirements.
p < .05.
p < .01.
p < .001. Weighted regressions.