Development and psychometric properties of the health-risk behavior inventory for Chinese adolescents

Table 5 Means and Standard Deviations for the HBICA as a Function of Gender and Grade

	Grade 10				Grade 11				Grade 12				TOTAL
	boys		girls		boys		girls		boys		girls		boys		girls
Scale	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
(1) AV	5.32	4.11	3.43	2.76	5.93	4.56	3.54	2.88	5.22	3.93	3.22	2.48	5.51	4.24	3.41	2.72
(2) RB	3.69	2.85	2.86	1.99	4.38	3.27	2.99	2.25	3.91	2.84	2.82	1.99	3.98	3.01	2.89	2.07
(3) US	0.33	1.50	0.06	0.51	0.57	1.98	0.14	0.79	0.28	1.38	0.04	0.29	0.40	1.66	0.08	0.56
(4) SS	1.19	2.24	1.45	2.45	1.34	2.45	1.52	2.45	1.08	2.06	1.18	2.08	1.22	2.28	1.40	2.36
(5) SU	2.41	3.32	1.11	2.04	3.37	3.94	1.22	2.08	2.82	3.51	1.10	1.89	2.83	3.61	1.14	2.01
(6) HBICA Total	12.75	10.76	8.88	7.40	15.43	12.31	9.37	7.82	13.18	10.77	8.29	6.39	13.77	11.38	8.86	7.28

Note: AV = Aggression and Violence, RB = Rule Breaking, US = Unprotected Sex, SS = Suicide and Self-Injurious, SU = Substance Use, HBICA = Health-Risk Behavior Inventory for Chinese Adolescents.

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