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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2015 Dec 29;84:83–89. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.12.011

Table 2.

Multinomial logistic regression predicting profile membership by educational attainment.

RRR (SE)
Women
Men
Unhealthy Mixed Healthy/Unhealthy Unhealthy Mixed Healthy/Unhealthy
Educational attainment (ref: HS graduate)
 Less than HS 1.248 (0.344) 1.453 (0.360) 0.896 (0.186) 0.890 (0.192)
 Post HS 0.776 (0.134) 0.962 (0.137) 0.588 (0.081) *** 0.551 (0.078) ***
 Bachelor’s 0.581 (0.119) ** 0.805 (0.130) 0.342 (0.057) *** 0.430 (0.072) ***
 Post-baccalaureate 0.406 (0.092) *** 0.582 (0.100) ** 0.210 (0.042) *** 0.341 (0.066) ***
Confounders
 Age 0.898 (0.026) *** 0.989 (0.024) 0.945 (0.025) * 0.991 (0.027)
 Race/ethnicity (ref: Non-Hispanic White)
  Hispanic 0.547 (0.098) ** 1.172 (0.175) 0.761 (0.109) 1.033 (0.146)
  Non-Hispanic Black 0.810 (0.121) 1.629 (0.189) *** 0.619 (0.083) *** 1.178 (0.155)
  Non-Hispanic Asian 0.572 (0.166) 1.253 (0.256) 0.639 (0.132) * 0.900 (0.194)
  Other/multi-racial 1.043 (0.218) 0.694 (0.128) * 1.003 (0.228) 1.369 (0.307)
 Adolescent religiosity 0.836 (0.043) *** 0.967 (0.040) 0.918 (0.042) 0.998 (0.047)
 Adolescent delinquency 1.288 (0.045) *** 1.021 (0.034) 1.179 (0.032) *** 1.008 (0.030)
 Young adult personality
  Extraversion 1.052 (0.019) ** 0.958 (0.014) ** 1.028 (0.016) 0.959 (0.015) **
  Neuroticism 1.102 (0.019) *** 1.037 (0.016) * 1.047 (0.018) ** 1.007 (0.019)
  Agreeableness 0.989 (0.027) 0.995 (0.022) 1.039 (0.021) 1.062 (0.023) **
  Conscientiousness 0.925 (0.017) *** 0.943 (0.014) *** 0.906 (0.016) *** 0.889 (0.017) ***
  Openness 1.064 (0.024) ** 0.978 (0.019) 1.047 (0.021) * 1.019 (0.021)
 Has health insurance WIV 0.307 (0.046) *** 0.388 (0.053) *** 0.256 (0.034) *** 0.365 (0.051) ***
 Family income WI 1.001 (0.001) 0.999 (0.001) 1.000 (0.001) 0.998 (0.001)
 Parent’s education 0.984 (0.048) 0.947 (0.039) 1.071 (0.046) 0.919 (0.041)
 Two-bio family WI 0.754 (0.079) ** 1.031 (0.090) 0.902 (0.086) 0.949 (0.093)
 Marital status WIV (ref: married)
  Cohabiting 1.978 (0.231) *** 0.924 (0.093) 2.094 (0.218) *** 1.058 (0.117)
  Single 1.779 (0.322) ** 1.421 (0.209) * 1.668 (0.223) *** 1.059 (0.117)

Note: models run separately by gender; n = 7,404 women; n = 6,934 men;

p < .10,

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001;

High School graduate was reference for degree; Most Healthy and More Healthy were reference groups for behavioral profile for women and men, respectively; data source: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.