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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2010 Sep 27;42(4):230–235. doi: 10.1363/4223010

Table 3.

Logistic regression analyses: unadjusted and adjusted effects of abortion on low self-esteem at Wave II and Wave III among female adolescents with pregnancy between Wave I and Wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Variable Low Self-esteem Wave II Low Self-esteem Wave III
Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model
OR (95% CI) p OR (95% CI) p OR (95% CI) p OR (95% CI) p
Abortion 1.05 (0.52, 2.14) .89 1.33 (0.65, 2.71) .78 0.87 (0.33, 2.27) .78 0.89 (0.33, 2.41) .81
Prior low self-esteem 7.60 (3.15, 18.33) .00 1.53 (0.69, 3.37) .29
Age (in years) 0.80 (0.62, 1.03) .08 0.99 (0.73, 1.35) .96
Race/ethnicity
 White Non-Hispanic Referent Referent
 Black Non-Hispanic 0.86 (0.37, 2.00) .73 0.50 (0.20, 1.27) .14
 Hispanic (all races) 0.98 (0.38, 2.55) .97 0.98 (0.42, 2.31) .97
 Other race/ethnicity 1.05 (0.31, 3.61) .94 0.29 (0.04, 2.17) .23
Household structure .
 Two-parent Referent Referent
 Single-parent 0.89 (0.37, 2.11) .79 1.10 (0.46, 2.66) .83
 Other 1.05 (0.24, 2.90) .94 0.68 (0.22, 2.13) .51
Federal assistance 0.83 (0.21, 2.50) .77 1.28 (0.46, 3.55) .63
 Adjusted Wald F(1,127)=0.02, p=.89 F(9, 119)=3.56, p=.00 F(1,128)=0.08, p=.78 F(9, 119)=0.63, p=.77

Note: Prior self-esteem and all other variables except abortion measured at Wave I; abortion measured at Wave II; OR = odds ratio; CI= confidence interval; data weighted and analyses corrected for complex sample design.