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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Res. 2014 Jan 14;51(7):721–730. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2013.849652

Table 3.

Adjusted Coefficients in Probit Regression Predicting Sexual Risk Behavior

Ages 21 – 24 Ages 30 – 33

Unstandardized Betas
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Early sexual initiation 0.37*** 0.33*** 0.25** 0.18+ 0.18+ 0.37*** 0.23* 0.10 0.06 0.04
Demographic controls
 Gender (male) 0.21** 0.17* 0.16+ 0.15+ 0.17* 0.16+ 0.15+ 0.13
 Asian −0.42* −0.39** −0.34** −0.33** −0.25 −0.23 −0.20 −0.19
 African American −0.03 −0.10 −0.08 −0.07 0.19 0.15 0.16 0.17
 Native American 0.04 0.08 0.07 0.08 0.35 0.34 0.33 0.35
 Free lunch 0.04 −0.01 0.01 0.00 0.23 0.15 0.16 0.15
Environmental factors
 Family management 0.11 0.11 0.10 −0.17 −0.17 −0.18
 School bonding 0.03 0.04 0.05 −0.01 0.00 0.01
 Antisocial friends 0.27*** 0.23*** 0.25*** 0.25*** 0.21** 0.25**
 Neighborhood disorg. 0.10* 0.10+ 0.10* 0.09+ 0.08+ 0.09
 Child of teen parent 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.09
 Child sexual abuse 0.03 0.00 −0.01 0.41** 0.40** 0.38**
Individual factors
 Behavioral disinhibition 0.18*** 0.21*** 0.12* 0.16**
 Early alcohol use 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.01
 Early puberty −0.05 −0.04 −0.02 0.00
Interactions
 BD x antisocial peers −.11* −0.16**

R-square .02 .08 .11 .13 .14 .03 .08 .13 .14 .15

Note.

*

p<.05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001;

Neighborhood disorg. = Neighborhood disorganization; BD x antisocial peers = interaction term between behavioral disinhibition and antisocial peers.