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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2017 Sep 21;31(7):828–838. doi: 10.1037/adb0000313

Table 4.

Correlations for variables within each life stage in male and female structural models

Male correlation Female correlation
Early Context and Adaptation (age 6–7 years)

Low family SES ↔ Family mobility 0.277*** 0.309***
Low family SES ↔ Household type 0.585*** 0.553***
Low family SES ↔ Mother’s mental health 0.222** 0.172**
Low family SES ↔ Poor classroom behavior 0.106* 0.152**
Family mobility ↔ Household type 0.243*** 0.199***
Family mobility ↔ Mother’s mental health 0.140* 0.217***
Family mobility ↔ Poor classroom behavior 0.153*** 0.123**
Household type ↔ Mother’s mental health 0.170** 0.098
Household type ↔ Poor classroom behavior 0.152*** 0.107*
Mother’s mental health ↔ Poor classroom behavior −0.019 0.106

Adolescence (age 16–17 years)

Adolescent substance use ↔ Adolescent sexual behavior 0.451*** 0.379***

Young Adulthood (age 32–33 years)

Young adult substance problems ↔ Young adult risky sexual behavior 0.321*** 0.311***
Young adult substance problems ↔ Low young adult social bonds 0.206*** 0.184***
Young risky sexual behavior ↔ Low young adult social bonds −0.009 0.006

Midlife (age 42–43 years)

Midlife substance problems ↔ Midlife risky sexual behavior 0.264*** 0.296***
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001