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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2010 May;38(5):491–498. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.01.023

Table 3.

Final multiple group latent-growth model examining differences between men/boys and women/girls

	Men/boys (n =3814)	Women/girls (n=4457)
PROBLEM ALCOHOL USE INTERCEPT PARAMETERS
Time-invariant activities
Sports only	0.02	0.02
Sports with academic	0.06	0.06
Academic without sports (1=yes)	0.00	0.00
Sports with music	0.11	0.11
Music without sports (1=yes)	0.55^***	0.55^***
Time-invariant covariates
Wave-1 age^a	0.46^***	0.34^***
White race (1=yes)^a	0.36^**	0.56^***
Friends’ drinking^a	0.71^***	0.85^***
Parental monitoring	−0.01	−0.01
Parental alcoholism (1=yes)	0.37	0.37
PROBLEM ALCOHOL USE SLOPE PARAMETERS
Time-invariant activities
Sports only	0.04^***	0.04^***
Sports with academic	−0.04^*	−0.04^*
Academic without sports (1=yes)	0.04	0.04
Sports with music	−0.02	−0.02
Music without sports (1=yes)	0.12^***	0.12^***
Time-invariant covariates
Wave-1 age	−0.07^***	−0.07^***
White race (1=yes)	0.15^***	0.15^***
Friends’ drinking	−0.10^***	−0.10^***
Parental monitoring	0.00	0.00
Parental alcoholism (1=yes)	−0.07	−0.07
Correlation between intercept and slope	−0.50^***	−0.58^***

Note: Model fit: χ²(39)=64.8, p=0.006, comparative fit index=0.99, root mean square error=0.01. Unstandardized coefficients are displayed. Boldface indicates significance.

Equality constraints across men/boys and women/girls released based on modification indices

p<0.06;

^**

p<0.01;

^***

p<0.001