TABLE 2—
Mentoring as Predictor of Problem Behavior Outcomes
| Mentoring | Individual Risk | Environmental Risk | Wave I Controla | ||||
| Outcome | OR (95% CI) | PARb | OR (95% CI) | PAR | OR (95% CI) | PAR | OR (95% CI) |
| Binge drinking | 1.11 (0.82, 1.51) | … | 0.78 (0.61, 1.01) | … | 0.89 (0.67, 1.19) | … | 1.25*** (1.15, 1.35) |
| Drug use | 0.98 (0.76, 1.25) | … | 1.46*** (1.17, 1.82) | … | 1.09 (0.88, 1.34) | … | 1.04*** (1.02, 1.06) |
| Smoking | 1.22 (0.94, 1.57) | … | 1.40** (1.10, 1.78) | … | 1.07 (0.88, 1.29) | … | 5.97*** (4.73, 7.54) |
| Gang membership | 0.80* (0.64, 0.99) | 0.06 | 1.25 (0.97, 1.60) | 0.09 | 1.13 (0.87, 1.46) | 0.04 | 1.07 (0.78, 1.48) |
| Hurt other in fight | 0.71* (0.51, 0.98) | 0.10 | 1.73** (1.21, 2.48) | 0.23 | 1.43* (1.00, 2.05) | 0.14 | 1.36** (1.08, 1.70) |
| Risk-taking | 0.82* (0.69, 0.99) | 0.04 | 1.05 (0.90, 1.22) | −0.01 | 1.04 (0.89, 1.23) | 0.01 | … |
Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; PAR = population attributable risk. All analyses include statistical control for demographic variables of gender, age, and race/ethnicity.
aWave I control for binge drinking is frequency of binge drinking in the previous year; for drug use, the control is frequency of drug use in the past month; for smoking, the control is having tried smoking (yes/no); for gang membership, the control is average frequency of delinquent behavior; for hurt others in fight, the control is number of times respondent injured another person in a fight in the previous year. There is no corresponding Wave I control variable for risk-taking.
bPAR values are included only for outcomes where mentoring is a significant predictor. To enable comparison across predictors, PAR values for mentoring were computed with the mentoring predictor recoded so that a score of 1 represented not reporting a mentoring relationship.
*P <.05; **P <.01; ***P <.001.