Table 2. Discontinuity in Alcohol Consumption Trajectories as a Function of Timing of the Parenthood Transition: Latent Factor Means and Covariate Effects.
| Outcomes: Alcohol Consumption Trajectories and Observed Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Status | Emerging Adult Slope | Parenthood Slope | Observed Outcomes | |
| Initial Model | M (SE) | M (SE) | Intercept (SE) | |
| 1.40 (.15)*** | 2.98 (.27)*** | .02 (.23) | ||
| b (SE) | b (SE) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adol. Parenta | .73 (.67) | |||
| Early EA Parenta,b | -.98 (.34)** | -.04 (.67) | ||
| Late EA Parenta,b | -2.83 (.82)*** | -2.44 (.87)** |
| Final Conditional Model | Intercept (SE) | Intercept (SE) | Intercept (SE) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .69 (.19)*** | 3.25(.32)*** | .40 (.24)†c |
| Predictors | b (SE) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adol. Parenta | .91 (.60) | |||
| Early EA Parenta,b | -.88 (.33)** | .88 (.62) | ||
| Late EA Parenta,b | -2.28 (.80)** | -1.23 (.79) | ||
| Female | -1.04 (.18)*** | |||
| FHD | 1.55 (.33)*** | .49 (.27)† | ||
| Educational Status | -.09 (.09) | -1.66 (.37)*** | ||
| Married TVCd |
Notes.
Early EA = aged 19-22, Late EA = aged 23-26
a
Three first child indicators were used to estimate level differences in alcohol consumption at the interval when participants became parents.
b
Two first child indicator variables were used to estimate parenthood slope differences between the two emerging adult groups and adolescent parents.
c
The parenthood slope intercept corresponds to the estimate of the conditional mean of the parenthood slope for adolescent parents.
d
Randomly-varying time varying covariate (TVC) effect of married status on four observed outcomes (adolescence through young adulthood alcohol consumption).
†
p < .10
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001