Table 3.
Total indirect effects of early movie exposure on risky sex and alcohol use.
| Total indirect effect | Total
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Men (n = 528)
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Women (n = 541)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | z | B | z | B | z | |
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| MSE → T6 risky sex1 | 0.26 | 2.00* | 0.39 | 2.64** | 0.01 | 0.05 |
| MSE → T6 alcohol use1 | 0.68 | 3.12** | 1.37 | 3.38*** | 0.13 | 0.52 |
| MAE → T6 risky sex | 0.28 | 4.54*** | 0.17 | 2.95** | 0.46 | 3.39*** |
| MAE → T6 alcohol use | 0.48 | 5.94*** | 0.48 | 3.47*** | 0.50 | 4.87*** |
Note. T6 = time 6; MSE = movie sex exposure; MAE = movie alcohol exposure. Unstandardized coefficients for men and women derived from separate structural equation models for each gender.
1
Total indirect effects significantly different between genders.
*
p ≤ .05;
**
p ≤ .01;
***
p ≤ .001.