Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the sample and study variables.
| Study Sample | Cortisol Subsample | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demands | Coping Resources | Pressure | Activation | Recurrent Pain | lnAUCG | lnCARG | |||
| % | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | % | % | Mean | Mean | |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Boys | 41 | 3.37 | 3.83 | 2.69 | 2.53 | 10.2 | 32 | 8.87 | 6.78 |
| Girls | 59 | 3.61 ** | 3.77 | 3.33 *** | 3.11 *** | 22.7 ** | 68 | 9.02 † | 7.07 *** |
| Grade | |||||||||
| 8 | 51 | 3.47 | 3.80 | 3.04 | 2.86 | 17.2 | 57 | 8.95 | 6.98 |
| 9 | 49 | 3.55 | 3.79 | 3.12 | 2.89 | 17.9 | 43 | 9.00 | 6.96 |
| School | |||||||||
| Suburban | 30 | 3.50 | 3.83 | 2.89 | 2.72 | 10.7 | 25 | 8.96 | 6.95 |
| City | 70 | 3.52 | 3.78 | 3.16 ** | 2.94 * | 20.5 * | 75 | 8.97 | 6.98 |
| All | 100 | 3.51 | 3.79 | 3.08 | 2.87 | 17.6 | 100 | 8.97 | 6.97 |
| n | 411 | 411 | 411 | 407 | 406 | 404 | 198 | 191 | 198 |
*** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05, † p < 0.10. Note. T-tests performed for all variables except recurrent pain; chi-square performed for recurrent pain.