Behavior problems In the bivariate models for externalizing behavior problems, the coefficient on the occurrence of a gun homicide was positive and statistically significant for both girls and boys, though the associations for boys only reached marginal significance (see Table 2 ).
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Invisible wounds: Community exposure to gun homicides and adolescents' mental health and behavioral outcomes.
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Fully interacting our independent variables and covariates with gender yielded similar results, with gun homicides more strongly associated with anxiety for girls, though the gender interaction term did not reach statistical significance, we therefore cannot definitively conclude that gun homicides are more strongly associated with girls' than boys’ anxiety outcomes.