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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2015 Sep 7;51(11):1615–1629. doi: 10.1037/dev0000038

Table 2b.

The Great Recession & Child Drug/Alcohol Use & Vandalism and Mediators by Mothers' Marital Status: Odds Ratios from Logistic Regressiona

Drug and Alc. Use Vandalism


Single Married/Cohabiting Single Married/Cohabiting


Consumer Sentiment Index 0.98 1.01 0.87 0.84+ 1.01 1.01 0.90 0.88+
Local Unemployment Rate 1.27* 0.95 0.69 0.70 0.94 0.95 1.21 1.31*
Child male 0.00+ 0.14 0.88 0.03 0.30 0.14 0.00+ 0.00+
Child male*CSI 1.14** 1.05 0.97 1.01 1.04 1.05 1.14+ 1.15*
Child male*UR 0.88 0.89 1.51 1.51+ 0.88 0.89 0.93 0.93
Mediators
        Warmth 1.12 0.96 1.12 0.93
        Physical aggression 0.45* 0.13 0.45* 0.39
        Psychological aggression 2.18** 1.52 2.18** 1.38
        Depression 0.79 0.19+ 0.79 1.11
Household Income 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00***
Unemployed 1.37 2.14+ 1.37 3.45**

1932 1211 2072 1239

Sobel test Z-Score 2.84** n.s. n.s. n.s.

Notes:

+

p<0.10

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001

a

includes city fixed effects, lagged dependent variables and the following covariates: child age, child sex, mother age, household income, mother ever depressed (baseline to 5-year survey), mother race/ethnicity, mother's education level, and mother's marital status.