Table 4.

Indirect effects of parental family structure on year two substance use, mediated by family functioning characteristics, calculated using Product of Coefficients method (unstandardized coefficients; N=1433)

Parental family structure – Living with:	a	se(a)	b	se(b)	a*b	se(a*b)	a*b/ se(a*b)
Single mother
Communication	−0.90	0.06	−0.04	0.09	0.004	0.01	0.43
Monitoring	−0.06	0.02	−1.71	0.51	0.10	0.05	2.24*
Conflict	0.04	0.05	0.07	0.12	0.003	0.01	0.47
Cohesion	−0.09	0.06	−0.03	0.09	0.003	0.01	0.33
Single father
Communication	−0.01	0.14	−0.04	0.09	0.00	0.01	0.07
Monitoring	−0.09	0.05	−1.71	0.51	0.15	0.10	1.59+
Conflict	−0.02	0.11	0.07	0.12	−0.001	0.01	−0.17
Cohesion	−0.26	0.14	−0.03	0.09	0.008	0.02	0.33
Neither parent
Communication	−0.23	0.08	−0.04	0.09	0.009	0.02	0.44
Monitoring	−0.07	0.03	−1.71	0.51	0.12	0.06	1.92*
Conflict	0.12	0.06	0.07	0.12	0.008	0.02	0.56
Cohesion	−0.16	0.08	−0.03	0.09	0.005	0.01	0.33

⁺p<0.10,

^*p<0.05 (one-tailed)