. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Oct 14;39(11):2171–2178. doi: 10.1111/acer.12856

Table 1.

Structural parameter estimates and path decompositions of mediation models.

	Baseline Mediation Model		+ Sociodemographic Adjustment
Outcome and Predictors	Estimate (SE)	p	Estimate (SE)	p

Frequency of Bar Attendance
Border Residence	−.04 (.12)	.729	.03 (.09)	.749
Young Age (18–29)	.35 (.11)	.002	.15 (.09)	.110
Border Youth (Border Residence X Young Age)	.55 (.20)	.006	.56 (.15)	< .001
R²	.08		.16
Severity of Drinking
Frequency of Bar Attendance	.40 (.04)	< .001	.43 (.03)	< .001
Border Residence	.14 (.10)	.171	.25 (.11)	.024
Young Age (18–29)	−.01 (.11)	.948	−.01 (.10)	.930
Border Youth (Border Residence X Young Age)	.14 (.17)	.410	.15 (.16)	.362
R²	.22		.37
Severity of Acute Problems
Severity of Drinking	1.09 (.10)	< .001	.96 (.08)	< .001
Frequency of Bar Attendance	−.07 (.06)	.214	−.06 (.05)	.242
Border Residence	−.40 (.22)	.073	−.43(.19)	.023
Young Age (18–29)	.14 (.19)	.437	.03 (.16)	.859
Border Youth (Border Residence X Young Age)	.03 (.33)	.932	.02 (.27)	.933
R²	.59		.61

Path Decomposition	Estimate p	95% CI	Estimate p	95% CI
Border Youth → Bar Freq. → Drinking → Acute Problems	.24 (.10)	.011 [.06–.42]	23 (.07)	.001 [.09–.42]
Border Youth → Bar Freq. → Acute Problems	−.04 (.04)	.268 [−.13–.01]	−.04 (.03)	.254 [−.13–.02]
Border Youth → Drinking →