Table 2.
Prevalence of substance misuse by latent pathways, men (N′= 362), % (SE) and chi-square
| Age, in years | |||||||||||||
| Variable | 18 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 30 | 33 | |||||||
| Heavy episodic drinking | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | 35.6a | (5.2) | 42.1 | (5.3) | 44.1a | (5.3) | 41.6 | (5.4) | 37.6 | (5.6) | 34.4 | (5.2) | |
| Married fathers | 30.9 | (4.4) | 38.3 | (4.6) | 29.4a | (4.4) | 33.1 | (4.6) | 28.5 | (4.5) | 32.9 | (4.6) | |
| PS-educated w/o children | 22.6a | (3.6) | 44.2 | (4.1) | 39.0 | (4.1) | 43.9 | (4.1) | 36.7 | (4.3) | 39.5 | (4.3) | |
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | 5.482 | 0.842 | 3.604 | 2.692 | 1.739 | 1.252 | |||||||
| Alcohol abuse/dependence | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | N.A. | 46.5a | (5.5) | 45.4a | (5.3) | 35.7a | (5.1) | 28.5 | (5.0) | 29.6a | (5.1) | ||
| Married fathers | N.A. | 29.2a | (4.4) | 21.5a,b | (4.0) | 21.8a | (4.0) | 17.0 | (3.7) | 16.2a | (3.7) | ||
| PS-educated w/o children | N.A. | 33.0 | (3.9) | 34.2b | (4.1) | 30.1 | (3.9) | 26.2 | (3.9) | 18.1 | (3.5) | ||
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | N.A. | 4.215 | 8.683* | 3.598 | 3.616 | 4.082 | |||||||
| Daily smoking | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | 35.1a | (5.2) | 48.2a | (5.3) | 46.6a,b | (5.2) | 41.7a | (5.2) | 42.6a | (5.4) | 43.1a | (5.4) | |
| Married fathers | 24.3b | (4.1) | 35.7b | (4.6) | 31.8a | (4.5) | 29.0 | (4.4) | 26.66 | (4.3) | 28.2a | (4.5) | |
| PS-educated w/o children | 10.7a,b | (2.7) | 22.1a,b | (3.6) | 20.96 | (3.6) | 20.9a | (3.5) | 17.8a,6 | (3.3) | 15.6a | (3.3) | |
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | 23.424*** | 19.239*** | 17.727*** | 11.291** | 16.023*** | 21.522*** | |||||||
| Nicotine dependence | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | N.A. | N.A. | 15.0a | (3.7) | 24.5a | (4.6) | 24.6a,6 | (4.9) | 29.6a | (5.2) | |||
| Married fathers | N.A. | N.A. | 10.8b | (3.0) | 17.7 | (3.7) | 17.0a | (3.7) | 19.9 | (4.0) | |||
| PS-educated w/o children | N.A. | N.A. | 3.6a,6 | (1.6) | 11.9a | (2.8) | 6.76 | (2.3) | 16.6a | (3.4) | |||
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | N.A. | N.A. | 11.408** | 6.125* | 15.421*** | 4.345 | |||||||
| Marijuana use | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | 44.9a,b | (5.4) | 43.0a,b | (5.3) | 42.7a,b | (5.3) | 35.5a | (5.2) | 29.1 | (5.1) | 26.9a | (4.9) | |
| Married fathers | 21.8a | (4.0) | 25.0a | (4.1) | 20.6a | (3.8) | 15.1a | (3.5) | 18.5 | (3.8) | 13.5a | (3.4) | |
| PS-educated w/o children | 20.8b | (3.4) | 26.3b | (3.7) | 24.56 | (3.8) | 24.0 | (3.7) | 21.0 | (3.5) | 20.6 | (3.5) | |
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | 13.593** | 6.932* | 8.638* | 7.653* | 2.141 | 3.666 | |||||||
| Marijuana abuse/dependence | |||||||||||||
| Unmarried with limited PS | |||||||||||||
| education | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 25.5a,6 | (4.6) | 15.5 | (4.1) | 17.2a | (4.2) | ||||
| Married fathers | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 6.6a | (2.4) | 10.0 | (3.0) | 3.1a | (1.8) | ||||
| PS-educated w/o children | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 12.4b | (2.8) | 6.3 | (2.2) | 8.8 | (2.6) | ||||
| Overall Wald χ2 (2 df) | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 9.832** | 4.551 | 7.468* | |||||||
Notes: The statistics are percentages with standard errors in parentheses, except for rows with chi-square values. Estimated prevalences for latent pathways were 26.2% for unmarried men with limited postsecondary education, 31.6% for married fathers, and 42.2% for postsecondary-educated men without children. Pairwise comparisons (1 df) with the same superscript were significantly different at p < .05. PS = postsecondary; n.a. = data not available; w/o = without.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01;
***
p < .001.