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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2005;31(4):617–639. doi: 10.1081/ada-200068418

Table 3.

Effect of body image on selected drug use and norm outcomes—unstandardized regression coefficients for more acculturated Latino/-a boys and girls

Amount of recent alcohol use Lifetime cigarette use Frequency of recent cigarette use Amount of recent cigarette use Antidrug norms
Boys
Dislike looks 0.073* −0.008 0.010 0.031 −0.017
Too fat −0.043 0.045 0.014 0.028 −0.062
Too thin 0.018 0.303** 0.153* 0.176* −0.356**
Usual grades −0.046* −0.066** −0.028* −0.035* 0.122***
Low SES −0.293* −0.106 0.010 −0.004 0.230
Age 0.076 0.168* 0.074 0.120* −0.151
Adjusted r-squared 0.025 0.048 0.022 0.030 0.082
Girls
Dislike looks −0.044 0.021 −0.033* −0.034 0.006
Too fat 0.125 0.032 0.081* 0.108* −0.003
Too thin 0.052 −0.072 −0.004 −0.016 0.183
Usual grades −0.086*** −0.099*** −0.043*** −0.052*** 0.169***
Low SES −0.176 −0.268 −0.063 −0.029 0.263
Age 0.007 0.066 0.024 0.021 −0.129
Adjusted r-squared 0.037 0.061 0.053 0.048 0.104
*

p<0.05.

**

p<0.01.

***

p<0.001.