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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Mar 26;90(1):12–24. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.02.006

Table 4.

Estimated odds ratios (OR) of marijuana class membership, in relation to early aggressive/disruptive behavior and suspected middle school influences by grade, based on a longitudinal multinomial latent class regression model.

Variables Marijuana Exposure Opportunity (Class 2) vs Little or No Involvement (Class 1) Marijuana Use and Problems (Class 3) vs Little or No Involvement (Class 1)
6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)

Early Aggressive/Disruptive Behavior
  Low 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  Moderate 2.2 (1.1, 4.4) 1.1 (0.6, 2.2) 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 1.5 (0.2, 9.4) 4.0 (1.4, 11.3) 3.1 (1.2, 8.2)
  High 2.7 (1.2, 6.3) 2.4 (1.1, 5.2) 1.7 (0.9, 3.4) 0.8 (0.1, 6.2) 2.9 (0.9, 9.6) 3.5 (1.4, 8.3)

Parent monitoring
  High 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  Moderate 1.6 (0.9, 2.9) 0.6 (0.3, 1.1)* 0.9 (0.5, 1.6) 50.0 (7.3, 342.8) 3.8 (1.3, 10.9)* 1.4 (0.6, 3.7)*
  Low 1.7 (0.9, 3.5) 0.7 (0.4, 1.3)* 0.6 (0.3, 1.3)* 25.3 (4.7, 135.6) 2.3 (0.7, 7.4)* 1.5 (0.6, 3.6)*

Deviant peer affiliation
  Low 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  Moderate 4.6 (1.7, 12.9) 1.8 (1.0, 3.2) 1.9 (1.1, 3.3) 1.3 (0.1, 14.9) 1.4 (0.5, 3.5) 2.3 (1.0, 5.3)
  High 10.0 (3.3, 30.3) 1.6 (0.7, 3.4)* 3.0 (1.6, 5.8) 3.2 (0.3, 37.5) 5.0 (2.2, 11.4) 6.1 (2.9, 13.1)

Neighborhood disadvantage
  Low 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
  Moderate 1.6 (0.6, 4.3) 1.4 (0.7, 2.8) 1.0 (0.4, 2.2) 4.8 (1.3, 17.8) 1.5 (0.5, 4.4) 1.0 (0.4, 2.1)*
  High 3.7 (1.6, 8.4) 1.4 (0.6, 3.2) 0.9 (0.5, 1.6)* 2.8 (0.4, 18.0) 2.3 (0.8, 6.2) 1.6 (0.7, 4.0)
*

Indicates the estimate is significantly different at the 0.05 level from the sixth grade estimate.