Table 3.
Correlations among observed variables in a path model
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Prenatal cocaine exposurea | – | −.03 | −.04 | −.04 | .09 | −.09 | .13* | .001 | .07 | .07 | .09 | .13* | |
| 2. Gender, male | – | .08 | −.08 | .05 | −.03 | .06 | .04 | .02 | .10* | .24*** | .07 | ||
| 3. Violence exposure | – | −.07 | .08 | .13* | .42*** | .06 | .14* | .23*** | .28*** | .22*** | |||
| 4. HOME score | – | .07 | −.15* | −.09 | −.02 | −.04 | −.12* | −.17** | −.13* | ||||
| 5. Sexual victimization | – | .003 | .18*** | .10 | .27*** | .15** | .17** | .20*** | |||||
| 6. Blood lead levelb | – | −.05 | .07 | .02 | .10 | .20** | .15* | ||||||
| 7. Externalizing behavior | – | .09 | .20*** | .18*** | .24*** | .14** | |||||||
| Substance use | |||||||||||||
| 8. Alcohol | – | .43*** | .47*** | .26*** | .24*** | ||||||||
| 9. Tobacco | – | .56*** | .33*** | .24*** | |||||||||
| 10. Marijuana | – | .46*** | .41*** | ||||||||||
| 11. Early sex | – | .46*** | |||||||||||
| 12. Sexual risk behavior | – | ||||||||||||
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| M | 1.18 | – | −0.94 | 48.44 | – | 1.86 | 49.41 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| SD | .1.48 | – | 1.11 | 6.60 | – | 0.57 | 10.02 | – | – | – | – | ||
| % | – | 46.70 | – | – | 20.41 | – | – | 38.10 | 31.36 | 29.97 | 33.33 | 42.03 | |
Cocaine units per week, log transformed;
Sub-sample of 284;
p ≤ .05;
p ≤ .01;
p ≤ .001.