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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Use. 2008 Jan 1;13(4):283–292. doi: 10.1080/14659890802170745

Table II.

Lifetime substance use, expectancies, and parental monitoring by family type

Outcome Variable Summary Statistic Family type Single-parent (n=179) Nuclear (n=755) Blended (n=77) Extended (n=130) Combined (n=1141)
Lifetime substance use prevalence Probability 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3
SE 0.04 0.02 0.05 0.04 0.02
Positive substance use expectancies Mean 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.4
SE 0.07 0.02 0.07 0.07 0.02
Parental monitoring Mean 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4
SE 0.06 0.03 0.08 0.06 0.03

Note. Positive substance use expectancies were measured on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree) and parental monitoring was measured on a scale from 1 (never) to 4 (always).