The Structure of Witnessed Community Violence amongst Urban African American Mothers: Latent Class Analysis of a Community Sample

Table 4

Individual characteristics by latent class (N = 209).

Variables*	Class
	(1) “High risk of violence exposure” (N = 103)	(2) “High risk of violence exposure” (N = 106)
Mean age	28.4	29.1
	𝜒^2 = 0.742 (P =.389)
Education
<High school	8.3%	5.0%
	𝜒^2 = 0.820 (P =.365)
High school	45.5%	25.1%
	𝜒^2 = 8.600 (P =.003)
College	46.2%	68.9%
	𝜒^2 = 9.876 (P =.002)
Mean household income	$27,018	$52,860
	𝜒^2 = 9.916 (P =.002)
Mean depression score	14.0	11.1
	𝜒^2 = 3.640 (P =.056)
Mean anxiety score	34.8	31.6
	𝜒^2 = 4.483 (P =.034)

*The variables were not an explicit part of the LCA model; instead, they were included as auxiliary variables in modeling. Equality tests of means across classes using posterior probability-based multiple imputations with 1 degree of freedom for the overall test [31].