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	-	-	-
	r_u		.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

Psychological Correlates of Precocious Sex

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