Table 3.
Effects of Social Stressors on Changes in Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking among Women in Poverty (N=392)
| Predictors | Problem Drinking Model 1 | Psychological Distress Model 2 | Problem Drinking Model 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOR | 95% CI | Coeff. | SE | AOR | 95% CI | |
| At time, T-1 | ||||||
| Psychological distress | -- | -- | 0.632*** | (0.033) | -- | -- |
| Problem drinking | 4.68*** | (2.09, 10.5) | -- | -- | 6.28*** | (3.04,13.0) |
| At time, T | ||||||
| Neighborhood disorder | 1.94** | (1.24, 3.03) | 0.130*** | (0.030) | 1.55 | (0.98, 2.45) |
| Stressful life events | 1.27** | (1.08, 1.50) | 0.065*** | (0.013) | 1.13 | (0.95,1.35) |
| Income, logged | 0.99 | (0.76, 1.29) | −0.028* | (0.014) | 1.04 | (0.81,1.33) |
| Psychological distress | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2.69*** | (1.77,4.08) |
*
p< .05,
***
p < .001
Unweighted N, results are weighted. Adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals are shown for dichotomized outcomes, unstandardized coefficients with standard errors are shown for a continuous outcome. Control variables not shown above include fixed covariates (race/ethnicity, education, marital status) and time-varying covariates (number of children at home, weekly drug use, wave of interview). The percent reduction in the AOR may be computed by (AOR model 1 – AOR model 3)/(AOR model 1 – 1) [71].