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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2015 Aug;40(4):744–749. doi: 10.1007/s10900-015-9993-4

Table 3.

The role of motive dimensions in youth’s smoking and drinking (multiple logistic regression analyses) (n = 500)

Motive dimension BOYS (n = 170)
GIRLS (n = 330)
SMOKING OR (95 % CI) DRINKING OR (95 % CI) SMOKING OR (95 % CI) DRINKING OR (95 % CI)
Social 1.21 (.98–1.50) 1.20 (1.03–1.50)* 1.12 (1.04–1.27)** 1.49 (1.31–1.70)***
Self-enhancement .92 (.72–1.17) 1.12 (1.00–1.52) 1.01 (.87–1.16) 1.04 (.93–1.16)
Boredom relief 1.31 (1.09–1.65)** .90 (.60–1.34) 1.05 (.88–1.26) .91 (.89–1.08)
Affect regulation 1.11 (1.05–1.27)** .98 (.83–1.69) 1.19 (1.08–1.31)*** 1.01 (.90–1.14)
Socioeconomic variables
Father’s schooling (2 = college/university, 1 = less) 1.33 (.40–4.44) .80 (.26–2.44) 2.24 (.83–6.11) 2.45 (1.11–5.38)*
Mother’s schooling (2 = college/university, 1 = less) .22 (.06–.77)* .50 (.44–1.34) .55 (.20–1.50) .18 (.07–.42)***
χ2 41.30*** 32.82*** 43.20*** 115.66***
df 6 6 6 6
Nagelkerke R2 .45 .34 .29 .46

OR odds ratio

95 % CI 95 % confidence intervals

*

p < .05;

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001