Table 2.

Relations of Participant Characteristics and Behavioral Risk Factors for Cancer

	Overweight/ obese	Inadequate F&V intake	Current smoking	Insufficient physical activity	At-risk drinker	# of risk factors
Participant Characteristics	No (REF)/Yes N = 229/1134	No (REF)/Yes N = 1140/223	No (REF)/Yes N = 1247/116	No (REF)/Yes N = 1004/359	No (REF)/Yes N = 1296/67	Mean/Std 2.1 (±0.8)
1. Age	.223**	.007**	−.011	.004	−.056*	.056*
2. Sex	−.042	.040	−.139**	.157**	.006	.001
Female
Male (REF)
3. Education	−.080*	.002	−.297**	.054	−.136*	−.064*
< Bachelor’s Degree (REF)
Bachelor’s Degree
≥ Master’s Degree
4. Annual household income	.015	.001	−.214**	−.008	−.023	−.045
< $40,000 (REF)
$40,000–79,999
≥ $80,000
5. Partner status	.051	.015	−.024	−.008	−.029	−.004
Partner
No Partner (REF)
6. Employment status	.015	−.090**	−.068*	.043	−.034	.040
Employed
Unemployed (REF)
7. Perceived discrimination	.029	.010	.039	−.014	.048	.028
8. Stress	.013	−.022	.086**	.054*	.055*	.092**
9. Depressive symptoms	.045	−.026	.105**	.054*	.042	.112**

^**p < .01;

^*p < .05

Note.

Interrelations between participant characteristics and risk factors were assessed using Pearson correlations for continuous-continuous variable associations, Point-biserial correlations for continuous-binary associations, Spearman correlations for continuous-ordinal and ordinal-ordinal associations, Phi coefficients for binary-binary associations, and Rank biserial coefficient for ordinal-binary associations. Discrimination = Day-to-Day Unfair Treatment Scale; Stress = Perceived Stress Scale; Depressive symptoms = Center for Epide-miological Studies Depression 10-item scale. REF= Reference group. Std = standard deviation.