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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2010 Jan 1;32(1):51–57. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.06.016

Table 3.

Risky Sex: Direct Effects from Structural Equation Models

Boys Girls
Dependent Variable Independent Variable LCL B UCL β LCL B UCL β
English GPA GPA 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.88 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.87
Math GPA GPA 0.69 0.83 0.98 0.78 0.85 0.95 1.05 0.80
Physical science GPA GPA 0.99 1.10 1.25 0.92 1.09 1.20 1.32 0.89
Social studies GPA GPA 0.94 1.06 1.21 0.90 1.08 1.18 1.31 0.88
Risk norms GPA −1.41 −0.45 0.54 0.07 −1.38 −0.74 −0.11 −0.13
Gang membership GPA −0.42 −0.19 0.03 −0.17 −0.35 −0.08 .18 −0.06
Risk norms Student-teacher connectedness −0.98 −0.24 −0.61 −0.04 −0.75 −0.28 0.19 −0.06
Gang membership Student-teacher connectedness −0.41 −0.22 −0.04 −0.21 −0.25 −0.03 0.19 −0.03
Sexual risk GPA −0.57 −0.31 −0.07 −0.25 −0.36 −0.17 0.06 −0.12
Sexual risk Risk norms −0.01 0.03 0.07 0.16 0.05 0.09 0.14 0.38
Sexual risk Gang membership 0.004 0.26 0.57 0.24 −0.11 0.19 0.54 0.17
Sexual risk Student-teacher connectedness −0.36 −0.15 0.06 −0.13 −0.18 −0.02 0.15 −0.01

Notes: N = 218 for boys; N = 344 for girls. B = unstandardized regression coefficient; LCL = Lower 95% confidence limit; UCL = upper 95% confidence limit, and β is the standardized regression coefficient. Confidence intervals that do not include zero are significant at p < .05 and displayed in bold face type.