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Published in final edited form as: J Youth Adolesc. 2012 Dec 2;42(11):1674–1686. doi: 10.1007/s10964-012-9869-1

Table 2.

Multivariate regression predicting frequency of alcohol use in the last 30 days

Network characteristics	Variable	Full sample (n = 2,150)		Male (N = 1,132)		Female (N = 1,018)		T_Δb
		b	SE	b	SE	b	SE
Participant demographics	Female	−0.19^*	0.06	–	–	–	–	–
	Black	−0.55^*	0.15	−0.60^*	0.23	−0.53^*	0.20	−0.23
	Asian	−0.74^*	0.10	−0.73^*	0.15	−0.76^*	0.14	0.15
	Latino	−0.38^*	0.13	−0.34	0.18	−0.42	0.17	–
	Other	0.15	0.33	0.37	0.47	0.02	0.48	–
	Age	0.14^*	0.02	0.17^*	0.03	0.11^*	0.03	1.41
	Completed high school	0.62^*	0.17	0.66^*	0.22	0.45^*	0.26	0.67
Structural	Density	0.46^*	0.20	0.60^*	0.29	0.29	0.27	–
	Total peer ties	0.11^*	0.03	0.09^*	0.04	0.13^*	0.04	−0.71
Interactional	Emotional closeness	0.44^*	0.09	0.48^*	0.13	0.39^*	0.13	0.49
	Race homophily	−0.01	0.05	−0.01	0.08	0.11	0.07	–
	Sex homophily	−0.03	0.05	−0.04	0.08	−0.07	0.08	–
	Avg. age of ties	0.03	0.01	0.04	0.02	−0.01	0.02	–
	Offline contact w/ties	0.42^*	0.12	0.35^*	0.16	0.43^*	0.16	−0.35
	R²	0.10		0.12		0.08

^*

p < .05