Table 3.

Sociodemographic Characteristics Predictive of Group Membership

	Predictor Sociodemographic Characteristics
	Sexual Orientationa β (S.E.)	African Americanb β (S.E.)	Low SES (age 12)c β (S.E.)	Single Parent Household (age 12)d β (S.E.)	High Neighborhood Problems (age 12)e β (S.E.)
Parent-Child Communication
Frequent Stable	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Infrequent increasing	0.33(0.17)	0.83***(0.16)	0.50*** (0.14)	−0.28 (0.15)	0.29 (0.14)
Infrequent decreasing	0.51*(0.23)	0.94***(0.26)	0.57** (0.21)	−0.06 (0.21)	0.13 (0.20)
Parental knowledge
Increasing	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Quickly Decreasing	0.48 (0.25)	−0.20 (0.16)	0.45* (0.18)	0.53** (0.17)	0.07 (0.15)
Slowly Decreasing	1.04***(0.24)	0.50** (0.19)	0.68*** (0.18)	0.55** (0.18)	0.50 (0.12)

Note. S.E. = Standard error, SES = socioeconomic status, Ref = reference group

^aHeterosexual girls were used as reference

^bWhite girls were used as reference

^cCohabitating parents were used as reference

^dHigher SES was used as reference

^eLow Neighborhood Problems was used a reference

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001