Research Article

Family and Personal Adjustment of Economically Disadvantaged Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong

Table 4

Differences between poor group and nonpoor group in positive youth development constructs.

MeasuresPoor groupNonpoor groupF value
MeanSDMeanSD

CBC4.370.834.450.742.50
PA4.450.934.530.871.70
GPYDQ4.510.754.590.712.36
PIT4.041.084.270.9411.82*

Problem behavior0.410.420.390.460.03
Substance abuse0.080.190.090.210.44

Family interaction3.480.833.780.8125.28*
Paternal parenting2.290.722.630.5264.35*
Maternal parenting2.860.582.930.504.32

Note. An overall alpha level based on the Bonferroni adjustment was carried out to adjust for inflated type 1 error.
* 𝑃 < . 0 1 .