. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2014 Oct 21;38(11):2809–2815. doi: 10.1111/acer.12548

Table 2.

Parameter estimates from mediational models predicting the severity of (latent) alcohol involvement, with bar attendance variables as mediators.

	No Additional Adjustment	+ Neighborhood Adjustment	+ Social-Demographic Adjustment
Effects on Frequency of Bar Attendance
Male gender	.21 (.09)^*	.20 (.09)^*	.25 (.08)^†
Border residence	−.04 (.12)	.01 (.11)	.05 (.11)
Young Age (18-29)	.34 (.11)^†	.33 (.11)^†	.10 (.11)
Border Youth (Border × 18-29)	.57 (.20)^†	.56 (.20)^†	.58 (.18)^†
Effects on Drinking Severity
Male gender	.94 (.09)^‡	.93 (.10)^‡	.95 (.10)^‡
Border residence	.15 (.11)	.20 (.11)	.23 (.13)
Young Age (18-29)	−.03 (.11)	−.05 (.11)	−.08 (.11)
Border Youth (Border × 18-29)	.24 (.17)	.27 (.17)	.16 (.18)
Frequency of bar attendance	.40 (.04)^‡	.40 (.04)^‡	.40 (.04)^‡

Path Decomposition	b (SE)	95% CI	b (SE)	95% CI	b (SE)	95% CI
Border Youth → Freq. bar attendance → Drinking	.23^†	[.05,.39]	.22^†	[.06,.38]	.23^†	[.09,.39]
Border Youth → Drinking	.24	[−.08,.58]	.27	[−.04,.62]	.16	[−.18,.50]
Total	.46^*	[.11,.85]	.50^†	[.16,.89]	.39^*	[.02,.79]

Note. Estimates in the upper portion of the table are linear regression coefficients. Path decomposition estimates represent the unique effect of border youth on severity of drinking via the listed path (standard errors are bootstrapped and confidence intervals are bias-corrected). Columns correspond to distinct mediation models with no additional adjustment, adjustment for effects of neighborhood factors (“+ Neighborhood Adjustment”), and adjustment for both neighborhood factors and various sociodemographic background characteristics (“+ Social-Demographic Adjustment”) on both frequency of bar attendance and severity of alcohol involvement.

p<.05

^†

p<.01

^‡

p<.001.