Table 6. Regressions of Self and Maternal Reports of Adolescents' General Health Status on Measures of Adolescent and Maternal Health Controlling for Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors, NLSY97 Wave 1a.
| Adolescents' Reports of Adolescents' General Health Status | Mothers' Reports of Adolescents' General Health Status | Difference Across Modelsc | ||||||||||||
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| Coef. | s.e.b | 95% CI | R2 | Coef. | s.e. | 95% CI | R2 | N | ||||||
| Lower Bound | Upper Bound | Lower Bound | Upper Bound | |||||||||||
| Adolescent limitation affecting school/work (1=yes) | -0.429 | 0.058 | *** | -0.542 | -0.316 | 0.060 | -0.640 | 0.057 | *** | -0.751 | -0.528 | 0.150 | 4446 | *** |
| Adolescent requires medication (1=yes) | -0.412 | 0.047 | *** | -0.504 | -0.320 | 0.070 | -0.624 | 0.045 | *** | -0.712 | -0.536 | 0.160 | 4446 | *** |
| Adolescent learning or emotional problem (1=yes) | -0.236 | 0.049 | *** | -0.332 | -0.140 | 0.050 | -0.389 | 0.045 | *** | -0.478 | -0.300 | 0.130 | 4445 | ** |
| Adolescent sensory limitation (1=yes) | -0.081 | 0.037 | * | -0.155 | -0.008 | 0.050 | -0.154 | 0.036 | *** | -0.224 | -0.084 | 0.120 | 4446 | |
| Adolescent physical deformity (1=yes) | -0.246 | 0.117 | * | -0.475 | -0.017 | 0.050 | -0.408 | 0.112 | *** | -0.628 | -0.189 | 0.120 | 4446 | |
| Adolescent chronic condition (1=yes) | -0.381 | 0.044 | *** | -0.468 | -0.295 | 0.060 | -0.632 | 0.042 | *** | -0.715 | -0.549 | 0.170 | 4446 | *** |
| Adolescent BMI | ||||||||||||||
| Normal weight | (Reference) | 0.060 | (Reference) | 0.120 | ||||||||||
| Overweight | -0.178 | 0.040 | *** | -0.255 | -0.100 | -0.035 | 0.037 | -0.108 | 0.038 | 4248 | *** | |||
| Obese | -0.359 | 0.048 | *** | -0.452 | -0.265 | -0.249 | 0.044 | *** | -0.335 | -0.163 | * | |||
| Maternal self-reported health | ||||||||||||||
| Fair/poor | -0.282 | 0.100 | ** | -0.478 | -0.085 | 0.070 | -0.573 | 0.113 | *** | -0.795 | -0.351 | 0.190 | 4461 | * |
| Good | -0.427 | 0.053 | *** | -0.530 | -0.323 | -0.599 | 0.055 | *** | -0.706 | -0.491 | ** | |||
| Very good | -0.232 | 0.033 | *** | -0.296 | -0.168 | -0.491 | 0.033 | *** | -0.555 | -0.427 | *** | |||
| Excellent | (Reference) | (Reference) | ||||||||||||
| Maternal limitations in work due to health (1=yes) | -0.153 | 0.043 | *** | -0.238 | -0.068 | 0.050 | -0.152 | 0.044 | *** | -0.239 | -0.064 | 0.120 | 4459 | |
| Maternal BMI | ||||||||||||||
| Normal weight | (Reference) | 0.050 | (Reference) | 0.120 | 4248 | |||||||||
| Overweight | -0.081 | 0.034 | * | -0.148 | -0.015 | -0.020 | 0.033 | -0.086 | 0.045 | |||||
| Obese | -0.115 | 0.036 | ** | -0.186 | -0.043 | -0.111 | 0.038 | ** | -0.185 | -0.037 | ||||
NLSY97 = National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 Cohort; coef. = coefficient; s.e. = standard error.
a
Self and maternal reports of adolescents' general health status are regressed on each measure of child and maternal health status, net of the demographic and socioeconomic controls listed in Table 5.
b
Robust standard errors to account for nonindependence in observations (multiple children per mother).
c
A Wald chi-square test with one degree of freedom is used to determine the difference in the coefficients across models.
*
= p<.05,
**
= p<.01,
***
= p<.001