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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2022 Feb 14;92(3):257–267. doi: 10.1037/ort0000609

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.