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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2013 Jun 17;27(3):674–686. doi: 10.1037/a0032836

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

Baseline (N = 1040)

Male (n = 503) Female (n = 537)


M (SD)/Frequency M (SD)/Frequency

Age 14.8 (0.93)a 14.8 (0.89)a
Parental education1 3.29 (1.34)a 3.13 (1.34)a
Acculturation2 16.0 (3.15)a 15.5 (3.30)b
Social self-control3 29.3 (5.45)a 28.0 (5.65)b
Peer substance use4 4.74 (5.55)a 5.49 (5.60)b
% Cigarette users 10%a 8%a
% Alcohol users 29%a 36%b
% Marijuana users 15%a 15%a
% Hard drug users 4%a 5%a

Follow-up (N = 846)

Male (n = 396) Female (n = 450)


Frequency Frequency

% Cigarette users 15%a 11%a
% Alcohol users 38%a 37%a
% Marijuana users 18%a 13%b
% Hard drug users 7%a 6%a

Note. Same-letter subscript across row denotes absence of statistically significant gender difference (p < .05) for the corresponding variable. Different-letter subscript across row denotes statistically significant gender difference (p < .05). Substance use frequency corresponds to any use in past 30-day.

1

Coded as 1 = not completed elementary school, 2 = not completed high school, 3 = completed high school, 4 = some college or job training, 5 = completed college, 6 = completed graduate school;

2

Higher score indicates greater English language use;

3

Higher score indicates higher social self-control;

4

Higher score indicates greater number of peers using cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drugs.