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Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2010 May;29(3):307–316. doi: 10.1037/a0019286

Table 2.

Moderation effects of selected health behaviors on the association between socioeconomic position and elevated CRP

	Cigarette smoking			Vigorous exercise			Poor diet
Moderator	Education → Behavior	Behavior → CRP	Total indirect effect	Education → behavior	Behavior → CRP	Total indirect effect	Education → Behavior	Behavior → CRP	Total indirect effect
Race/ethnicity
White	−0.34 (0.03)^**	0.27 (0.06)^**	−0.09^**	0.35 (0.03)^**	−0.30 (0.07)^**	−0.11^**	−0.10 (0.02)^**	0.12 (0.05)^*	−0.01^*
Black	−0.26 (0.04)^**	0.29 (0.11)^*	−0.08^*	0.25 (0.05)^**	−0.16 (0.14)	−0.04	0.02 ^a (0.04)	0.14 (0.09)	0.003
Hispanic	−0.16 ^a (0.05)^**	−0.18 ^a (0.13)	0.03 ^a	0.33 (0.05)^**	0.03 (0.16)	0.01	0.09 ^a (0.05)	−0.05 (0.09)	−0.005
Sex
Women	−0.30 (0.03)^**	0.17 (0.09)	−0.05	0.31 (0.03)^**	−0.25 (0.08)^**	−0.08^**	−0.11 (0.03)^**	0.20 (0.05)^**	−0.02^**
Men	−0.32 (0.03)^**	0.30 (0.08)^**	−0.10^**	0.36 (0.03)^**	−0.28 (0.07)^**	−0.10^**	−0.04 ^b (0.02)	0.02 ^b (0.07)	−0.001 ^b
	Poverty → Behavior	Behavior → CRP	Total indirect effect	Poverty → Behavior	Behavior → CRP	Total indirect effect
Race/ethnicity
White	0.60 (0.08)^**	0.26 (0.06)^**	0.16^**	−0.58 (0.11)^**	−0.29 (0.07)^**	0.17^**
Black	0.59 (0.10)^**	0.26 (0.11)^*	0.15^*	−0.39 (0.15)^*	−0.14 (0.14)	0.05
Hispanic	0.27 ^a (0.13)^*	−0.18 ^a (0.14)	−0.05 ^a	−0.19 ^a (0.14)	0.02 (0.15)	−0.004 ^a
Sex
Women	0.49 (0.09)^**	0.14 (0.09)	0.07	−0.42 (0.10)^**	−0.24 (0.08)^**	0.10^*
Men	0.61 (0.08)^**	0.30 (0.08)^**	0.18^**	−0.52 (0.10)^**	−0.25 (0.08)^**	0.13^**

Values are probit coefficients (standard errors) and represent the expected change in the z-score of the outcome per unit change in the predictor.

^*

P < 0.05

^**

P < 0.01

^a

Significantly different from Whites (P < 0.10)

^b

Significantly different from women (P < 0.10)

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