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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Black Psychol. 2012 Mar 8;38(4):471–496. doi: 10.1177/0095798412438395

Table 5.

Logistic regression of illicit drug use on racist life events, socio-demographics, and culture and ethnicity variables

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Racist life events (RLE) 1.00 (0.01) 1.04 (0.02) 1.05 (0.03) 1.02 (0.02)
Socio-demographics
 Age (ten years) 1.25 (0.17) 1.30 (0.18) 1.26 (0.17) 1.31 (0.18)
 Education (years) 0.92 (0.09) 0.85 (0.08) 0.90 (0.09) 0.89 (0.08)
 Household income ($K) 0.98 (0.01) 0.98 (0.01) 0.98 (0.01) 0.98 (0.01)
 Work status1
  Full-time 0.28 (0.16)* 0.31 (0.17)* 0.27 (0.15)* 0.28 (0.16)*
  Part-time 0.76 (0.35) 0.80 (0.37) 0.77 (0.36) 0.82 (0.37)
Culture and ethnicity
 Ethnic affirmation 1.20 (0.65)
 Ethnic identity achievement 0.73 (0.43)
 Ethnic community member 0.50 (0.21)
 Strong cultural practices2 0.85 (0.39) 2.21 (1.32)
Interaction terms
 Categorical ethnic affirm3
  Medium 2.20 (1.61)
  High 1.38 (1.00)
 Ethnic affirmation * RLE
  Medium * RLE 0.92 (0.04)*
  High * RLE 0.96 (0.03)
 Categorical ethnic identity2
  Medium 1.97 (1.34)
  High 1.82 (1.48)
 Ethnic identity * RLE
  Medium * RLE 0.95 (0.03)
  High * RLE 0.91 (0.04)*
 Cultural practices * RLE 0.93 (0.03)*

 Pseudo R2 0.12 0.12 0.14 0.12
  BIC 241.18 240.93 237.81 229.70
  LR X2 24.77** 25.02** 28.13** 25.62**
1

Omitted category is “unemployed”

2

Omitted category is “low to moderate engagement in cultural practices”

3

Distribution divided into thirds; Omitted category is “low”

*

= p <.05;

**

= p <.01;

***

= p <.001 (two-tailed tests)

Note: Odds ratios are presented, standard errors in parentheses