TABLE 4.

Means and standard deviations of parent-adolescent communication and depressive symptoms according gender and grade.

Gender	Variable	Grade 7	Grade 9	t	p	Cohen’s d
Boys	Father communication	9.87 (2.88)	9.45 (2.86)	5.32	<0.001	0.15
	Mother communication	10.69 (2.75)	10.32 (2.77)	5.00	<0.001	0.13
	Depressive symptoms	9.44 (3.61)	10.21 (3.86)	–7.73	<0.001	–0.21
Girls	Father communication	9.89 (2.85)	9.44 (2.90)	5.78	<0.001	0.16
	Mother communication	11.43 (2.73)	11.15 (2.83)	3.87	<0.001	0.10
	Depressive symptoms	9.75 (3.51)	10.74 (3.67)	–10.44	<0.001	–0.28

N_{Boys, Grade7} = 2,921, N_{Boys, Grade9} = 2,790, N_{Girls, Grade7} = 2,791, N_{Girls, Grade9} = 2,953.