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Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2015 Jun 26;53:338–350. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.06.016

Table 6.

Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis of African American Women's Dating Behaviors with White Men (n=595).

	Model 3A OR (SE)	Model 3B OR (SE)	Model 3C OR (SE)	Model 3D OR (SE)	Model 3E OR (SE)	Model 3F OR (SE)	Model 3G OR (SE)
Criminal justice system status^a
Prison	1.91 (0.38)^***	1.76 (0.36)^**	1.76 (0.36)^**	1.56 (0.33)^*	1.62 (0.35)^*	1.58 (0.35)^*	1.97 (0.51)^**
Probation	1.32 (0.27)	1.25 (0.26)	1.25 (0.26)	1.28 (0.27)	1.28 (0.27)	1.35 (0.29)	1.26 (0.31)
Age		1.01 (0.01)	1.01 (0.01)	1.01 (0.01)^*	1.02 (0.01)^*	1.02 (0.01)^*	1.02 (0.01)^*
Household income		0.93 (0.04)	0.93 (0.04)	0.94 (0.05)	0.94 (0.05)	0.93 (0.05)	0.97 (0.06)
Number of years of education		0.94 (0.04)	0.94 (0.04)	0.94 (0.04)	0.92 (0.04)	0.92 (0.04)	0.88 (0.05)^*
Self-identified light skin tone			0.90 (0.19)	0.87 (0.18)	0.89 (0.19)	0.89 (0.19)	0.79 (0.19)
Drug use (past year)				1.56 (0.28)^*	1.56 (0.29)^*	1.55 (0.29)^*	1.77 (0.38)^**
Cultural mistrust					0.98 (0.01)^*	0.98 (0.01)^*	1.00 (0.01)
Racist life events					1.02 (0.01)^*	1.02 (0.01)^*	1.02 (0.01)
Difficult to find African American man						0.72 (0.15)	0.84 (0.18)
Easier to find eligible white man						2.22 (0.47)^***	1.86 (0.46)^*
Would date someone white							14.54 (3.65)^***

LRX²	10.64	19.34	19.61	25.71	34.23	48.78	201.48
Adjusted count R²	0.03	0.10	0.07	0.09	0.10	0.08	0.42
BIC ′	2.14	12.61	18.72	19.01	23.27	21.50	−124.82

^*

= p<0.05;

^**

=p<0.01;

^***

=p<0.001

Note: OR = Odds Ratio, SE = Standard Error

^a

Omitted category is “community”