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Table 2.

Single and multiple mediation coefficients of the indirect relationship between sensation seeking, social anxiety, and depression and initiation of alcohol use

	Single-mediation models								Multiple-mediation models
	Male Bootstrap CI^a				Female Bootstrap CI^a				Male Bootstrap CI^a				Female Bootstrap CI^a
Indirect effects	OR	SE	Ll	Ul	OR	SE	Ll	Ul	OR	SE	Ll	Ul	OR	SE	Ll	Ul
Social anxiety
Total	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.81^**	0.06	0.70	0.94	0.79^*	0.08	0.64	0.97
END	0 87^*	0 05	0 78	0 96	0.98	0.07	0.81	1.14	0.87^*	0.05	0.77	0.99	0.88	0.07	0.76	1.03
PPD	0 96	0 03	0.91	1 02	0 95	0 .05	0 86	1 05	0.92	0 04	0.85	1 01	0.89	0 .06	0 78	1 02
Sensation seeking
Total	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.25^*	0.09	1.07	1.45	1.51^*	0.18	1.21	1.90
END	1 22^**	0 07	1.10	1.36	1.22^*	0.08	1.07	1.39	1.11	0.06	1.00	1.24	1.27^*	0.11	1.07	1.51
PPD	1.04	0.03	0.98	1.10	1.07	0.05	0.97	1.18	1.12^*	0.05	1.02	1.23	1.19^*	0.08	1.04	1.36
Depression
Total	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.26^*	0.09	1.09	1.45	1.27^*	0.12	1.06^*	1.52
END	1.03	0.05	0.94	1.13	1.26^*	0.10	1.09	1.47	1.21^*	0.08	1.07	1.37	1.22^*	0.09	1.05	1.41
PPD	1.09^*	0.04	1.01	1.18	1.15^*	0.06	1.03	1.28	1.04	0.04	0.97	1.11	1.05	0.05	0.95	1.15

Notes: CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio; Ll = lower limit; Ul = upper limit; END = expectations for not drinking; PPD = perceptions of peer drinking.

Bootstrap bias corrected and accelerated CIs (5,000 resamples).

p < .05;

^**

p < .001, based on Ztests and Sobel standard errors.