Table 7

Psychological Correlates of Precocious Sex

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Note

Table contains effect sizes (r); positive values indicate more problems or greater nonconventiona1 behavior for the precocious sex group than for controls. Dashes indicate that the study in question did not assess the behavior in question.
r
u is the unbiased effect size estimate.
* p < .05.

 

Study

n

School

Drugs

Religion

Peers

Home

Jessor et al. (1983) 254 .20 - .22 .45 .19
Ketterlinus et al. (1992) 3,760 .25 .18 .13 - -
Resnick & Blum (1994) 1,866 .13 - - .32 .16
D. Rosenthal et al. (1999) 241 - .15 - - -
  ru   .21 .18 .14 .34 .16
  N   5,880 4,001 4,014 2,120 2,120
  95% Confidence interval   .19 - .23 .15 - .21 .11 - .17 .30 - .37 .12 - .20
  Chi2 (homogeneity statistic)   19.40* 0.21 2.03 5.18* 0.21

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