Table 6 Age 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

Age

0.243

16.555

< 0.001***

Hadza * Age

− 0.174

9.668

0.002**

Iraqw * Age

− 0.455

9.012

0.003**

Haya * Age

0.255

− 16.161

< 0.001***

Altruistic

Egoistic

Age

0.377

37.766

< 0.001***

Hadza * Age

− 0.331

28.946

< 0.001***

Iraqw * Age

− 0.829

24.197

< 0.001***

Meru * Age

− 0.530

4.547

0.033*

Haya * Age

− 0.430

43.196

< 0.001***

Russians * Age

− 0.218

15.103

< 0.001***

Altruistic

Egalitarian

Age

0.134

12.230

< 0.001***

Hadza * Age

− 0.157

9.693

0.002**

Iraqw * Age

− 0.374

12.628

< 0.001***

Meru * Age

− 0.245

6.799

0.009**

Haya * Age

− 0.176

15.070

< 0.001***

Russians * Age

− 0.171

13.791

< 0.001***

  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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