. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 8.

Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2021 Aug 26;92(5):e781–e797. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13659

TABLE 2.

Descriptive statistics on outcome variables before and after school closures

	Before school closures M (SD)	After school closures M (SD)	χ² or t
Food insecurity (%)
Worry about running out of food	33.5	38.7	85.0^***
Parent ate less than should	22.5	22.2	0.24
Child ate less than should	9.95	10.0	0.04
Parent or child skipped meal	11.2	12.8	14.2^***
Sum of food insecurity questions (0–4)	0.77 (1.00)	0.84 (1.00)	27.0^**
Parent mood (1–3)
How much of day worried/depressed	1.47 (0.44)	1.59 (0.44)	153.1^***
How much of day angry	1.32 (0.34)	1.37 (0.34)	35.9^***
Parenting behavior (%)
Lost temper with child	5.90	7.28	11.4^***
Punished child	5.17	5.67	1.65
Child behavior (1– 4)
How much of day child sad	1.19 (0.31)	1.25 (0.31)	51.8^***
How much of day child uncooperative	1.46 (0.48)	1.45 (0.48)	1.46
Pack pickup (%)	62.7	32.0	10.2^***
N	235– 244

^**

p < .01.;

^***

p < .001.