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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2003 Aug;160(8):1470–1478. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.8.1470

TABLE 4.

Regression Coefficients Showing Relationship of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Four Domains With Violent Behavior in a Community Sample of Adolescents in Three Cities in Colombiaa

Coefficient for Relationship With
Violent Behaviorb
Domain and Risk Factor All
Subjects
(N=2,837)
Female
Subjects
(N=1,335)
Male
Subjects
(N=1,502)
Adolescent's personality
Tolerance of deviance 0.15*** 0.03* 0.22***
Sensitivity -0.10*** -0.05*** -0.09***
Marijuana use 0.59*** 0.48*** 0.59***
Family
Mother's illicit drug use 0.22* 0.61*** 0.16
Father's illicit drug use 0.39*** 0.47*** 0.31**
Siblings' illicit drug use 1.46*** 1.03*** 1.82***
Parent-child conflict 0.10*** 0.04*** 0.12***
Peers
Deviance 0.30*** 0.16*** 0.38***
Use of marijuana and illicit
drugs other than marijuana
0.47*** 0.30*** 0.57***
Ecological/cultural
Drug availability 0.16*** 0.10*** 0.19***
Violence toward the subject 0.73*** 0.65*** 0.74***
Watching violent television 0.35*** 0.19*** 0.40***
Neighborhood victimization 0.03* 0.03** 0.02
a

Subjects' age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are controlled in all analyses.

b

Violent behavior was defined as the number of instances of the behaviors listed in Table 1.

*

p<0.05.

**

p<0.01.

***

p<0.001.