Table 2.
Chi-square analysis of sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents stratified by problematic shopping
| Non-problematic shopping (N = 2,517) | Problematic shopping (N = 107) | |||||
| Dependent variable | N | % | N | % | χ 2 | P |
| Gender | 0.03 | 0.87 | ||||
| Male | 862 | 34.25% | 38 | 35.51% | ||
| Female | 1,655 | 65.75% | 69 | 64.49% | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Caucasian | 0.20 | 0.66 | ||||
| No | 645 | 25.63% | 30 | 28.04% | ||
| Yes | 1872 | 74.37% | 77 | 71.96% | ||
| African-American | 0.05 | 0.82 | ||||
| No | 2,332 | 92.65% | 98 | 91.59% | ||
| Yes | 185 | 7.35% | 9 | 8.41% | ||
| Asian | <0.001 | 1.00 | ||||
| No | 2,434 | 96.70% | 103 | 96.26% | ||
| Yes | 83 | 3.30% | 4 | 3.74% | ||
| Hispanic | 0.15 | 0.70 | ||||
| No | 2,298 | 91.30% | 96 | 89.72% | ||
| Yes | 219 | 8.70% | 11 | 10.28% | ||
| Other | 0.01 | 0.94 | ||||
| No | 2,359 | 93.72% | 101 | 94.39% | ||
| Yes | 158 | 6.28% | 6 | 5.61% | ||
| Grade | 11.64 | 0.01 | ||||
| 9th | 780 | 30.99% | 21 | 19.63% | ||
| 10th | 694 | 27.57% | 25 | 23.36% | ||
| 11th | 664 | 26.38% | 36 | 33.64% | ||
| 12th | 379 | 15.06% | 25 | 23.36% | ||
| Family structure | 6.21 | 0.04 | ||||
| One parent | 577 | 22.92% | 29 | 27.10% | ||
| Two parents | 1820 | 72.31% | 68 | 63.55% | ||
| Other | 120 | 4.77% | 10 | 9.35% | ||
| Self-injurious behavior status | 70.10 | <0.001 | ||||
| Non self-injurious behavior | 2088 | 82.96% | 54 | 50.47% | ||
| Self-injurious behavior | 429 | 17.04% | 53 | 49.53% | ||