Table 4.

Summary of Variables Predicting Initial Level and Growth in Positive Alcohol Expectancies for Caucasian Girls

	Caucasian (N = 253)
	B	SE B	β
Intercept
Public assistance	−0.08	0.09	−0.11
Parent drug problem	0.21	0.28	0.30
Neighborhood drug problem	−0.22	0.10	−0.32*
Depression	0.01	0.01	0.02
Physical aggression	0.04	0.02	0.06*
Lifetime alcohol use at Year 1	−0.10	0.33	−0.14
Slope
Public assistance	−0.08	0.10	−0.14
Parent drug problem	−0.06	0.32	−0.10
Neighborhood drug problem	0.17	0.12	0.27
Depression	0.02	0.02	0.03
Physical aggression	−0.01	0.02	−0.01
Lifetime alcohol use at Year 1	−0.27	0.37	−0.43
Quadratic
Public assistance	0.02	0.03	0.16
Parent drug problem	0.02	0.10	0.16
Neighborhood drug problem	−0.05	0.04	−0.34
Depression	0.00	0.00	−0.03
Physical aggression	0.00	0.01	−0.03
Lifetime alcohol use at Year 1	0.09	0.12	0.62

Year 1 corresponds to the girl at age 7. A growth model was not identified for African-American girls due to lack of measurement invari-ance over time.

B, unstandardized parameter estimate; β, standardized parameter estimate; SE, standard error.

^*p < 0.05.