Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for maltreated children with no placement, placement for maltreatment, and placement for maltreatment and delinquency
No placement | Placement for maltreatment |
Placement for maltreatment and delinquency |
|
---|---|---|---|
Demographic Characteristics | N = 76 | N = 361 | N = 94 |
Sex | |||
Female (n, %) | 44 (17.3%) | 183 (72.0%) | 27 (10.6%) |
Male (n, %) | 32 (11.6%) | 178 (64.3%) | 67 (24.2%) |
Race | |||
White, non-Hispanic (n, %) | 41 (11.9%) | 255 (74.1%) | 48 (14.0%) |
Black, non-Hispanic (n, %) | 35 (18.7%) | 106 (56.7%) | 46 (24.6%) |
Age at interview 1 (M, SD) | 28.70 (3.68) | 29.04 (3.67) | 28.90 (3.78) |
Mediator and Outcomes | |||
Sleep problems in young adulthood (M, SD) | 0.46 (0.81)a | 0.88 (1.03)b | 0.94 (1.09)b,c |
Adult Arrests (M, SD) | 2.71 (7.50)a | 1.91 (5.83)a | 8.63 (10.71)b |
Depression symptoms in middle adulthood | 14.63 (12.48) | 13.47 (10.55) | 14.56 (11.15) |
Anxiety symptoms in middle adulthood | 9.29 (10.59) | 10.91 (11.17) | 11.37 (11.42) |
Note. Pairwise comparisons were conducted using post hoc Scheffe tests as part of one-way ANOVAs. Statistically significant mean-level differences are indicated by superscripts (a, b, and c), where different superscripts denote significant differences between the groups and where the same superscript indicates that the differences are not significant.