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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Sep 3;204:107528. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.06.030

Table 3:

Relative Importance of Caregiver Characteristics for Predicting Underage Drinking

Proportions of Explained Variance in Future Drinking (Percent)
Importance of Composite Predictor Variables
Caregiver-Youth Relational Quality 41.19
Caregiver-Youth Communications 27.35
Caregivers’ Own Alcohol Use 29.35
Caregiver Monitoring 2.11
R2 (Cumulative Explained Variance) 38.71
Importance of Disaggregated Items
Caregiver Trusts Adolescent 18.02
Caregiver Helps Adolescent a Lot 38.76
Caregiver and Adolescent Talked about Dating 38.11
Caregiver and Adolescent Talked about School 1.3
Lack of Supervision 2.78
R2 (Cumulative Explained Variance) 39.44