Table 6 contains a schematic overview of the most important gender differences in the findings.
In general, the association between family type and problematic behaviour depends on the outcome variable under consideration and whether we look at boys or girls.
When focusing on delinquency, girls fare worse in stepfamilies than in single parent families,
while for boys it is the other way round.
This is in line with most findings from the recent literature (hypotheses 1b and 1c).
Interaction effects in an overall model confirm the statistical significance of this gender
difference with regard to the effect of family structure (p