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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2019 Dec;31(5):1695–1713. doi: 10.1017/S0954579419000981

Table 3.

Means and Standard Deviations for Child Mental Health Outcomes by Conflict Trajectories

Variable	Low Decreasing (n=148)		High Decreasing (n=71)		High Increasing (n=21)
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Mother Report – Mental Health
Internalizing Problems – T1	56.20^a	9.05	59.31^a	9.99	58.90	11.06
Externalizing Problems – T1	54.40	8.15	55.76	9.13	56.95	8.36
Internalizing Problems – T5	51.11	9.58	53.81	8.42	55.31	9.87
Externalizing Problems – T5	49.82	9.96	50.66	9.55	53.81	9.61

Youth Report – Mental Health
Internalizing Problems – T1	−.13^a	.88	.30^a	.83	−.07	.94
Externalizing Problems – T1	−.20^a	.85	.43^a,c	1.17	−.06^c	.93
Internalizing Problems – T5	−.03	.91	-.01	.96	.20	.86
Externalizing Problems – T5	−.05	.92	.02^c	1.10	.30^c	1.18

Youth Report - Risk Behaviors
Past Year Alcohol Use – T5	2.90	1.90	3.15	2.11	3.59	2.21
Past Year Marijuana Use – T5	1.81^a	1.55	2.44^a	2.05	2.00	1.84
Past Year # Sexual Partners – T5^{^}	.57^a	.98	.89^a	1.79	.76	.83

Note. T1 = baseline; T5 = six-year follow-up.

^{^}

indicates that a negative binomial regression model was used for the count outcome of number of sexual partners.

significant mean differences between Low Decreasing and High Decreasing trajectories

significant mean differences between Low Decreasing and High Increasing trajectories

significant mean differences between High Decreasing and High Increasing trajectories