Table 5 Gender effects on children’s behavior.

From: Variations in limited resources allocation towards friends and strangers in children and adolescents from seven economically and culturally diverse societies

Test category

Reference category

Predictors

B

Wald

p

Dependent variable: behavioral type

Egalitarian

Egoistic

Iraqw * Gender (male)

− 2.215

4.174

0.041*

Meru * Gender (male)

2.378

4.760

0.029*

Altruistic

Egoistic

Iraqw * Gender (male)

− 2.887

6.814

0.009**

Meru * Gender (male)

3.365

9.349

0.002**

Altruistic

Egalitarian

Gender (male)

− 1.162

7.866

0.005**

Meru * Gender (male)

0.987

10.688

< 0.001***

Russians * Gender (male)

0.5314

3.655

0.056

  1. Multinomial logistic regression model: parameter estimates. Behavioral types: Egoistic, Egalitarian, Altruistic, and Mixed. Only significant results for three first categories are presented. B—regression coefficient, Wald—test statistics, p—statistical significance (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001). Full model is available in Supplementary Table 1.
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