TABLE 3.

Percentage of survey responses in which Latina adolescents stated they expected to have any degree of happiness if pregnant, by selected characteristics, and odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) from logistic regression analyses^‡ assessing predictors of pregnancy happiness

Characteristic	% with any pregnancy happiness	Bivariate	Multivariate
All	59.3	na	na
CULTURAL
Immigrant generation
First	58.3	1.1 (0.6–2.0)	1.0 (0.5–1.9)
Second (ref)	59.3	1.0	1.0
Third	50.7	0.8 (0.3–1.7)	1.1 (0.5–2.3)
Familism	na	3.7 (2.1–6.8)***	3.7 (2.0–6.7)***
HOME/FAMILIAL
Mother has <high school education
No (ref)	56.3	1.0	1.0
Yes	59.4	1.2 (0.7–2.0)	1.3 (0.8–2.2)
Lives in crowded conditions
No (ref)	54.2	1.0	1.0
Yes	64.2	1.4 (0.9–2.4)	1.4 (0.8–2.3)
Mother was a teenage mother
No (ref)	60.0	1.0	1.0
Yes	54.9	0.9 (0.5–1.4)	1.0 (0.6–1.7)
Parental monitoring
Low (ref)	57.8	1.0	1.0
Moderate	54.6	0.8 (0.4–1.5)	1.0 (0.5–1.9)
High	52.2	0.8 (0.4–1.6)	0.7 (0.4–1.4)
No adult caregiver	75.5	1.3 (0.6–2.9)	1.7 (0.7–3.8)§
INDIVIDUAL
Age	na	1.1 (1.0–1.3)	1.1 (1.0–1.3)†
Had prior pregnancy
No (ref)	55.6	1.0	1.0
Yes	72.1	1.6 (0.9–2.9)†	1.0 (0.6–1.8)
School enrollment/sports participation
Not in school	66.1	1.1 (0.7–1.8)	0.7 (0.4–1.1)
In school/not playing sports (ref)	59.1	1.0	1.0
In school/playing sports	50.0	1.0 (0.7–1.5)	0.8 (0.5–1.3)
Power in relationship with main partner
No main partner (ref)	43.3	1.0	1.0
Low power	63.9	1.8 (1.1–2.8)*	1.3 (0.8–2.0)††
Moderate power	64.7	2.1 (1.5–3.0)***	1.9 (1.3–2.6)***
High power	71.4	2.5 (1.5–4.2)***	2.0 (1.2–3.3)**

^*p<.05.

^**p<.01.

^***p<.001.

^†p<.10.

^‡A generalized estimating equation approach was used to account for the multiple observations per participant.

^§Different from “high” at p<.10.

^††Different from “moderate power” and “high power” at p<.10.

Notes: Pregnancy happiness refers to a pregnancy in the next six months. All variables are dichotomous or categorical except familism and age, which are continuous. na=not applicable. ref=reference group.