Table 2.
Effects of Adolescent Substance Use on the Relationship between Positive Childhood Experiences and Positive Adult Functioning within Each Domain
| Model: Domain of positive functioning | Model path coefficients a (95% confidence interval) |
Model fit b |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step 1 |
Step 2 |
χ2(df) | CFI | RMSEA | |||
| Childhood experiences → Adult functioning (w/o adol. sub. use) | Childhood experiences → Adult functioning (w/adol. sub. use) | Childhood experiences → Adolescent sub. use. | Adolescent sub. use → Adult functioning | ||||
| Civic involvement | .47*** (.30 to .63) | .41*** (.23 to .58) | −.20* (−.36 to −.05) | −.23* (−.41 to −.06) | 32.59 (24) | .982 | .029 |
| Productivity and responsibility | .35* (.18 to .51) | .26* (.09 to .44) | −.26** (−.42 to −.11) | −.35* (−.53 to −.17) | 70.50***(24) | .900 | .067 |
| Interpersonal connection | .55* (.31 to .78) | .55* (.24 to .85) | −.49*** (−.65 to −.33) | −.03 (−.32 to .26) | 45.54** (23) | .940 | .048 |
| Physical exercise | .22*** (.11 to .32) | .20*** (.09 to .30) | −.16* (−.28 to −.03) | −.12 (−.26 to .02) | 6.75 (4) | .987 | .040 |
Note. adol. = adolescent; sub. = substance.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01;
***
p < .001.
a
Entries are standardized path coefficients with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses.
b
Model fit indices are based on the final models including adolescent substance use. N = 429 for all models.