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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Relat. 2017 Jan 17;65(5):701–715. doi: 10.1111/fare.12218

Table 2.

Latent Class Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Social Network Types on Sociodemographic Correlates among African Americans (N = 3,343)

Ambivalent (optimal)
Family Centered (optimal)
Strained (optimal)
Respondent charcateristics Logit SE p OR 95% CI Logit SE p OR 95% CI Logit SE p OR 95% CI
Female (male) 0.10 0.18 .572 1.11 [0.78, 1.57] −0.08 0.16 .616 0.92 [0.67, 1.26] −0.15 0.10 .124 0.86 [0.71, 1.05]
Age −0.02 0.01 .067 0.98 [0.96, 1.00] 0.00 0.01 .954 1.00 [0.98, 1.02] 0.01 0.01 .231 1.01 [0.99, 1.03]
Education 0.11 0.03 .001 1.12 [1.05, 1.18] 0.12 0.05 .017 1.13 [1.02, 1.24] 0.04 0.03 .115 1.04 [0.98, 1.10]
Household Income 0.24 0.11 .028 1.27 [1.02, 1.58] 0.15 0.11 .158 1.16 [0.94, 1.44] −0.04 0.09 .639 0.96 [0.81, 1.15]
Marital status (married)
    Partnered 0.11 0.29 .700 1.12 [0.63, 1.97] 0.46 0.35 .184 1.58 [0.80, 3.15] 0.50 0.28 .077 1.65 [0.95, 2.85]
    Separated 0.22 0.28 .436 1.25 [0.72, 2.16] 0.01 0.29 .975 1.01 [0.57, 1.78] 0.72 0.24 .002 2.05 [1.28, 3.29]
    Divorced 0.21 0.21 .323 1.23 [0.82, 1.86] 0.10 0.25 .702 1.11 [0.68, 1.80] 0.36 0.23 .117 1.43 [0.91, 2.25]
    Widowed 0.51 0.25 .038 1.67 [1.02, 2.72] −0.21 0.40 .601 0.81 [0.37, 1.78] −0.23 0.27 .386 0.79 [0.47, 1.35]
    Never married 0.29 0.26 .270 1.33 [0.80, 2.22] 0.53 0.26 .040 1.70 [1.02, 2.83] 0.51 0.24 .034 1.67 [1.04, 2.67]
Parent (nonparent) 1.00 0.43 .020 2.72 [1.17, 6.31] 1.16 0.71 .105 3.19 [0.79, 12.83] 1.69 0.47 < .001 5.42 [2.16, 13.62]
Number of children 13+ 0.06 0.04 .178 1.06 [0.98, 1.15] 0.00 0.05 .968 1.00 [0.91, 1.10] −0.05 0.04 .237 0.95 [0.88, 1.03]
Employment status (employed full-time)
    Employed part-time 0.54 0.22 .016 1.72 [1.11, 2.64] 0.20 0.29 .485 1.22 [0.69, 2.16] 0.31 0.23 .175 1.36 [0.87, 2.14]
    Unemployed 1.05 0.29 < .001 2.86 [1.62, 5.05] 0.56 0.36 .115 1.75 [0.86, 3.55] 0.82 0.29 .004 2.27 [1.29, 4.01]
    Retired 0.76 0.26 .004 2.14 [1.28, 3.56] 0.31 0.26 .227 1.36 [0.82, 2.27] 0.09 0.36 .800 1.09 [0.54, 2.22]
    Homemaker −0.29 0.36 .419 0.75 [0.37, 1.52] −0.78 0.54 .147 0.46 [0.16, 1.32] −1.12 0.36 .002 0.33 [0.16, 0.66]
    Student 1.03 0.87 .235 2.80 [0.51, 15.41] 0.96 0.92 .299 2.61 [0.43, 15.41] 1.05 0.85 .215 2.86 [0.54, 15.12]
    Disabled/other 0.27 0.25 .285 1.31 [0.80, 2.14] −0.12 0.26 .631 0.89 [0.53, 1.48] 0.15 0.21 .492 1.16 [0.77, 1.75]
Parent × age −0.02 0.01 .023 0.98 [0.96, 1.00] −0.02 0.02 .377 0.98 [0.94, 1.02] −0.03 0.01 .001 0.97 [0.95, 0.99]

Note. Reference category is in parentheses. CI = confidence interval for odds ratio (OR).