Table 2.
Multivariate models testing main and interactive effects of prejudice indicators with poverty and nativity status
Group and variable | Past-year drinking to drunkenness | ≥1 drinking consequence | ≥2 dependence symptoms | |||
OR | [95% CI] | OR | [95% CI] | OR | [95% CI] | |
Black respondents (n = 504) | ||||||
Stigma model | ||||||
Racial stigma | 1.02 | [0.93, 1.12] | 1.13 | [0.98, 1.29] | 1.20* | [1.03, 1.39] |
Below poverty | 1.69† | [0.93, 3.08] | 1.40 | [0.60, 3.24] | 2.01 | [0.79, 5.13] |
Stigma × Poverty | – | – | – | |||
Unfair treatment model | ||||||
Unfair treatment | 1.03 | [0.83, 1.26] | 1.40** | [1.09, 1.79] | 1.27 | [0.91, 1.76] |
Below poverty | 1.57 | [0.86, 2.88] | 1.12 | [0.49, 2.55] | 0.83 | [0.26, 2.64] |
Unfair treatment × Poverty | – | – | 1.95* | [1.04, 3.64] | ||
Latino respondents (n = 766) | ||||||
Stigma model | ||||||
Racial stigma | 0.95 | [0.82, 1.10] | 1.04 | [0.91, 1.19] | 0.95 | [0.82, 1.12] |
Foreign born | 0.73 | [0.48, 1.11] | 0.59† | [0.34, 1.04] | 0.72 | [0.41, 1.26] |
Below poverty | 1.21 | [0.76, 1.95] | 1.12 | [0.62, 2.01] | 1.13 | [0.61, 2.09] |
Stigma × Foreign born | 1.18† | [0.99, 1.40] | – | – | ||
Stigma × Poverty | – | 1.24* | [1.00, 1.54] | 1.26† | [0.99, 1.61] | |
Unfair treatment model | ||||||
Unfair treatment | 0.92 | [0.68, 1.25] | 1.16 | [0.89, 1.50] | 0.97 | [0.65, 1.43] |
Foreign born | 0.71† | [0.47, 1.07] | 0.60† | [0.34, 1.05] | 0.63 | [0.34, 1.20] |
Below poverty | 1.24 | [0.79, 1.96] | 1.32 | [0.75, 2.33] | 1.27 | [0.67, 2.42] |
Unfair treatment × Foreign born | – | – | 2.05** | [1.18, 3.59] | ||
Unfair treatment × Poverty | 1.54† | [0.97, 2.43] | – | – |
Notes: OR = odds ratio; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval. Models were adjusted for sex, age, education, and marital status. Racial stigma and unfair treatment were assessed in separate models. Nonsignificant (p > .10) interaction terms were removed from models.
p <.10;
p < .05;
p <.01.