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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2009 Mar;28(2):238–248. doi: 10.1037/a0013240

Table 2.

Distributions of untransformed study variables and correlations, adjusting for age and gender. 1

Mean SD Range 1. 2. 3. 4. 5a. 5b. 6a. 6b. 7a.
1. Uncontrollable life events 2.6 2.1 0-10
2. Potentially controllable life events 2.8 1.6 0-7 .45 ***
3. Instrumental aid from friends 3.5 0.8 1.7-5 .11 .04
4. Intimacy with friends 3.8 1.0 1-5 .04 .07 .45 ***
5. Inconsistent condom use
 a. Baseline 5.7 5.7 0-30 .12 .15 .04 .09
 b. Follow-up 6.7 5.6 0-24 .18 * .11 .20 .22 * .42 ***
6. Alcohol use before sex
 a. Baseline 4.9 4.6 0-25 .24 ** .14 -.03 .09 .68 *** .27 *
 b. Follow-up 5.0 4.5 0-22 .26 ** .13 .19 * .18 .18 .71 *** .40 ***
7. Marijuana use before sex
 a. Baseline 6.1 6.3 0-32 .33 *** .15 -.06 -.01 .67 *** .25 * .87 *** .39 ***
 b. Follow-up 6.8 6.7 0-35 .19 * .12 .08 .10 .19 .63 *** .38 *** .81 *** .55 ***
1

Baseline report of life events and supportive friendship variables are reported. Natural log transformations were performed on sexual risk behavior variables prior to analyses.

*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001