Table 3.
Girls’ Distress | Boys’ Distress | Boys’ BPI | |||||
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Mediators | Mediation Method | Beta (SE) | P | Beta (SE) | P | Beta (SE) | P |
Neighborhood Disorder | PM | −0.029(0.011) | 0.009 | −0.007(0.010) | 0.482 | −0.017(0.010) | 0.089 |
IOW | −0.034(0.019) | 0.072 | −0.006(0.020) | 0.764 | 0.003(0.022) | 0.880 | |
Social Disorder | PM | −0.040(0.012) | 0.001 | −0.012(0.011) | 0.256 | −0.022(0.011) | 0.042 |
IOW | −0.045(0.020) | 0.024 | −0.015(0.023) | 0.503 | −0.005(0.023) | 0.837 | |
Physical Disorder | PM | −0.013(0.008) | 0.119 | −0.001(0.007) | 0.893 | −0.008(0.007) | 0.252 |
IOW | −0.015(0.017) | 0.380 | −0.003(0.020) | 0.893 | 0.017(0.020) | 0.408 | |
Informal Social Control | PM | −0.012(0.012) | 0.306 | −0.002(0.005) | 0.712 | 0.006(0.005) | 0.243 |
IOW | −0.006(0.020) | 0.754 | −0.013(0.018) | 0.48 | 0.028(0.018) | 0.131 | |
Violent Victimization | PM | −0.010(0.007) | 0.128 | 0.000(0.006) | 0.982 | −0.017(0.009) | 0.051 |
IOW | −0.001(0.017) | 0.943 | −0.004(0.017) | 0.83 | 0.011(0.019) | 0.551 | |
Safety | PM | −0.015(0.011) | 0.186 | 0.003(0.010) | 0.768 | −0.016(0.010) | 0.105 |
IOW | −0.011(0.020) | 0.579 | 0.002(0.023) | 0.922 | 0.007(0.022) | 0.766 | |
Saw Drug Use/Selling | PM | 0.006(0.009) | 0.460 | 0.002(0.007) | 0.768 | −0.002(0.007) | 0.749 |
IOW | 0.009 (0.018) | 0.615 | −0.005(0.020) | 0.807 | 0.026(0.021) | 0.222 |
Sample size varies with missingness on the mediator which varies from 3.5–7%: N=1426 girls, N=1403 boys
Notes: Linear regression models adjusted for: youth age, black race, Hispanic ethnicity, gifted student, learning problems, behavioral problems, school asked to talk about problems youth was having with schoolwork or behavior, youth expelled from school, parental education, parental marital status, parental employment status, parental school enrollment status, parental receipt of public assistance/welfare, no teens present in baseline household, lived in baseline neighborhood for 5 years or move, parent believed streets in baseline neighborhood were very unsafe at night, and moved more than 3 times prior to baseline.
PM=Product Method; IOW=Inverse Odds Weight