Table 3.

Two-level hierarchical generalized linear model of adolescent sexual debut (Model A) and number of sexual partners (Model B) by Wave III (N = 8,337)^a,b

	Model A: Sexual debut				Model B: Number of partners
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2
	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE
Intercept	1.387^***	.065	1.692^***	.342	—	—	—	—
Neighborhood characteristics
Type^c
Upper middle class white suburban (ref.)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Middle class Hispanic/Asian suburb	−.130	.108	−.142	.111	−.248^**	.079	−.205^*	.081
Working class white rural	.242^*	.099	.293^**	.103	.148^*	.070	.228^**	.072
Poor black urban	.281	.188	.217	.195	.246^*	.125	.237	.128
Poor black rural	.310^*	.136	.482^**	.142	.237^*	.092	.440^***	.096
Poor white urban	.135	.146	.032	.150	.119	.102	.059	.105
Working class mixed race urban	−.125	.133	−.173	.139	−.262^**	.099	−.220^*	.102
Poor Hispanic/immigrant urban	.026	.142	−.016	.151	−.305^**	.101	−.190	.106
Middle class black urban	.107	.159	.104	.163	.133	.113	.150	.115
Mixed class white urban	.287	.216	.259	.219	.202	.144	.170	.145
Permissive sexual climate^d	.123^*	.049	.077	.051	.120^**	.036	.073^*	.036
Demographics
Age			.079^***	.051			.014	.013
Female			.363^***	.617			.116^**	.043
Two married biological parents			−.327^***	.066			−.318^***	.044
Family socioeconomic status			−.036^**	.012			−.006	.008
Individual characteristics
Depression			−.264^**	.084			−.198^***	.056
Relative pubertal development			.105^***	.028			.106^***	.019
Low self-control			.137^*	.057			.213^***	.038
Attachment to school			−.018	.039			−.040	.026
College aspirations			.003	.034			.045^*	.022
Religiosity			−.181^***	.031			−.162^***	.020
Nonviolent delinquency			.433^***	.077			.349^***	.049
Violent perpetration			.475^***	.082			.325^***	.050
Family characteristics
Family support			−.158^*	.062			−.177^***	.041
Parental attachment			−.022	.076			−.002	.048
Parental monitoring			.143	.098			.071	.066
Peer characteristics
Unstructured socializing			.237^***	.029			.171^***	.020
Random effects
Level 2 intercept (SE) (95% CI)	.111 (.039) (.056–.219)		.105 (.038) (.052–.214)		.058 (.021)(.029–.117)		.059 (.020) (.030–.115)
−2 Log likelihood	8,008.723		7,630.009		25,277.570		24,672.380

Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health Wave I (1994–1995) and Wave III (2001–2002).

CI = confidence interval; ref = reference; SE = standard error.

Model A (sexual debut) specified as a logistic regression, Model B (number of partners) specified as an ordered logit.

All predictors are measured from Wave I.

Model also controls for years lived in neighborhood.

Grand mean centered.

p <.05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001 (two-tailed tests).