Table 3.
Regression outcomes predicting adolescent smoking status, smoking susceptibility, and readiness to quit smoking
| Conditional logistic regression predicting smoking status Full matched sample (n = 162) |
Linear regression predicting smoking susceptibility Nonsmokers (n = 78) |
Linear regression predicting readiness to quit smoking Smokers (n = 84) |
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| Variable | ORa | [95% CI] | p | β | B (SE) | p | β | B (SE) | p |
| No. of people in network | 0.94 | [0.65, 1.36] | .73 | -.15 | -.03 (.02) | .17 | -.002 | -.001 (.04) | .99 |
| % Peers in network | 1.00 | [0.95, 1.05] | .98 | -.06 | -.002 (.002) | .48 | .13 | .006 (.006) | .29 |
| Average contact with network | 0.70 | [0.21, 2.38] | .57 | -.04 | -.03 (.08) | .75 | .27 | .46 (.21) | .04* |
| Social support (factor score) | 0.76 | [0.33, 1.76] | .52 | .22 | .08 (.05) | .10 | -.04 | -.04 (.12) | .73 |
| Pervasiveness of smoking (factor score) | 21.53 | [4.08, 113.57] | <.001*** | .38 | .26 (.07) | <.001*** | .07 | .07 (.11) | .56 |
| Support for smoking | .41 | .33 (.09) | .001** | -.13 | -.40 (.38) | .30 | |||
| Support for quitting | .28 | .49 (.23) | .04* | ||||||
Notes: OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; no. = number.
Nonsmokers serve as the reference group; ns were lower in the multivariate analyses because data were missing not at random.
p < .05;
p < .01;
p < .001.
