Table 4.
Family Background and High School Coefficients That Significantly Differed across Education Categories in Multigroup Growth Curve Models of Alcohol Use, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Waves I–IV.
| Variable | Across Education Categories (n = 2,829) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||
| High School Dropout | High School Only | Two-year Early | Four-year Early | ||
| Intercept | |||||
| Male | |||||
| Parent education | .19 | .21* | −.10 | .03 | |
| Math sequence ninth grade | |||||
| GPA ninth grade | |||||
| High school academic press | −.37 | .17 | .45*** | .19 | |
| High school peer drinking | |||||
| Slope | |||||
| Male | |||||
| Parent education | .00 | .02† | −.01 | .00 | |
| Math sequence ninth grade | |||||
| GPA ninth grade | |||||
| High school academic press | |||||
| High school peer drinking | |||||
Note: All models included controls. Significant differences in coefficients measured by changes in chi-square relative to degrees of freedom. GPA = grade point average.
†
p < .10,
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01,
***
p < .001.