Table 3.

SEM Estimated Path Coefficients to Providers’ Intentions to Partner (N = 141).

	Unbalanced partnership		Balanced partnership
	β	p Value	β	p Value
Demographics
Male versus female	−0.09	0.71	0.52*	0.05
Age	0.00	0.97	0.03	0.79
Education (1–4)	−0.23*	0.02	−0.00	0.96
Race/ethnicity
African American versus White	−0.15	0.61	0.38	0.28
Latino(a) versus White	0.00	0.99	−0.22	0.57
“Other” versus White	−0.06	0.87	0.05	0.91
Staff categories
Supervising versus counseling	0.13	0.67	−0.01	0.98
Educating versus counseling	0.15	0.59	0.25	0.45
Coordinating versus counseling	0.51	0.13	0.29	0.49
Agency size and capacity
Budget large versus small	0.15	0.65	−0.08	0.82
Employees medium versus small	−0.26	0.51	1.03*	0.02
Employees large versus small	−0.28	0.40	0.47	0.21
Research experience (years)	−0.06	0.75	−0.47*	0.00
Number of research projects	0.11	0.33	0.05	0.70
Provider factors
Research opinions	0.02	0.85	0.30*	0.04
Expectation researcher	0.15	0.08	0.04	0.69
Knowledge/skills	−0.20*	0.05	0.22*	0.02
R2	.19		.48

Note. SEM = structural equation modeling.

^*p <.05.