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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Drug Issues. 2008;38(1):69–101. doi: 10.1177/002204260803800104

Table 4.

Mean Family, Friend, and Social Scales1 by Lifetime DSM-IV Substance Abuse or Dependence Diagnosis for U.S. Latino Men and Women, Age 18–64 years.

Men Women

Substance-use diagnosis No substance- use diagnosis Substance-use diagnosis No substance- use diagnosis
N 171 867 64 1216
Family scales
 Family support −0.12 (0.10) −0.08 (0.04) 0.44 (0.14) 0.08 (0.03)*
 Family harmony −0.16 (0.10) 0.14 (0.05)* −0.58 (0.22) −0.08 (0.04)*
 Family pride −0.16 (0.09) 0.13 (0.04)** −0.53 (0.12) −0.06 (0.04)***
 Family cohesion −0.17 (0.09) 0.08 (0.04)** −0.40 (0.13) −0.03 (0.04)**
 Family cultural conflict 0.17 (0.06) −0.17 (0.05)*** 0.46 (0.15) 0.10 (0.04)*
Friend scales
 Friend support −0.05 (0.10) 0.05 (0.03) 0.64 (0.13) 0.02 (0.03)***
 Friend harmony −0.20 (0.07) 0.03 (0.05) −0.49 (0.20) 0.09 (0.03)**
1

Scales normalized to mean zero and standard deviation one. Scale means were age-adjusted for each sex and substance-use diagnosis subgroup. Standard errors of means shown in parentheses.

*

p < 0.05,

**

p < 0.01,

***

p < 0.001 for difference between persons of same sex with and without substance-use diagnosis.