Table 3.
Zero order correlation: relationship types and risk behaviors (N=366)
| HIV risk behaviors |
HIV risky needle behavior (binary) |
HIV risky sexual behaviors |
Drug Use | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background variables | ||||
| Employed | −.10* | −.06 | −.16** | −.07 |
| Age | −.04 | .01 | −.07 | −.10 |
| Education | −.07 | .01 | −.16** | −.07 |
| Married | .02 | .02 | −.04 | .00 |
| White | .14** | .23** | .09 | .08 |
| # of children under 18 | .08 | −.00 | .06 | −.02 |
| # month in jail (past 6 month) |
.05 | −.03 | .08 | −.14* |
| # arrests lifetime | 0.12* | 0.12* | 0.14** | 0.10* |
| Ever hospitalized for MH problem |
0.13* | 0.04 | 0.12* | 0.04 |
| Social relationship | ||||
| Positive partner | −.04 | −.08 | .06 | −.04 |
| Negative partner | .02 | .02 | .03 | −.02 |
| Substance-using partner | .01 | .05 | .05 | .01 |
| Positive parents | −.11* | −.02 | −.08 | −.13* |
| Negative parents | .01 | .00 | .02 | .01 |
| Substance-using parents | .06 | −.03 | .06 | .04 |
| Positive peers | −.08 | −.06 | −.08 | −.13* |
| Negative peers | .01 | .09 | −.02 | .10* |
*
Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
**
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).