. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2006 Dec 29;32(2):124–130. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2006.10.012

Table 4.

Number of Risk Behaviors: Multivariate Model for Girls and Boys

	Girls		Boys

	Standardized beta	p value	Standardized beta	p value
Age^a	0.178	<0.001	0.132	0.01
Low education	0.020	0.68	−0.086	0.11
Hispanic or other minority	0.047	0.35	0.033	0.54
BMI ≥ 85^th	0.132	0.007	0.111	0.04
Parent fruit^b	−0.132	0.007
Parent never smoker^b,^c	−0.120	0.01	NA
Parent number risk behaviors^b	NA		0.102	0.06

Age centered to 11 years

Derived from stage of change measures on Parents

Compared to non-smoking parent;

Both models were statistically significant: for Girls (n =396), F = 6.46, p <0.001, Adj R² = 0.08; for Boys (n =336), F = 3.56, p = 0.003, Adj R² = 0.04.

NA, not applicable.