Table 3.
Odds that Partners First Met Online (Odds ratios; all relationship types; unit of analysis = relationship)
| All Respondents (N=706) | Male Respondents (N=284) | Female Respondents (N=422) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| TEEN ATTRIBUTES | ||||||
| Female | 0.889 | |||||
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||
| nonHispanic White | ref | ref | ref | |||
| nonHispanic Black | 0.631 | 0.778 | 0.536 | |||
| Hispanic | 0.416 | * | 0.093 | * | 0.500 | |
| Other | 0.688 | 0.115 | ** | 1.048 | ||
| Socio-emotional adjustment | ||||||
| Closeness to mother at age 9 | ||||||
| Extremely close | ref | ref | ref | |||
| Quite close | 0.981 | 0.163 | 1.638 | |||
| Fairly or not very close/no contact past year | 1.352 | 5.304 | 0.565 | |||
| Closeness to father at age 9 | ||||||
| Extremely close | ref | ref | ref | |||
| Quite close | 1.181 | 6.757 | 0.515 | |||
| Fairly or not very close | 1.596 | 2.488 | 2.021 | |||
| No contact past year | 1.890 | 9.146 | 1.073 | |||
| Closeness to parents at mDiary baseline | ||||||
| Extremely close | ref | ref | ref | |||
| Quite close | 1.306 | 4.069 | 0.982 | |||
| Fairly or not very close | 1.072 | 3.616 | 0.653 | |||
| Disobedient at school (1=often/sometimes) | 0.780 | 1.856 | 0.765 | |||
| Fits in well at school | ||||||
| Strongly agree | ref | ref | ref | |||
| Somewhat agree | 2.193 | * | 0.761 | 4.981 | ** | |
| Disagree or home schooled | 1.100 | 0.040 | * | 2.767 | ||
| Makes friends easily (1 = often true) | 0.650 | 0.910 | 0.455 | * | ||
| Prior Dating Experience/Attraction | ||||||
| Ever dated by mDiary baseline | 0.746 | 0.339 | 0.962 | |||
| Ever same-sex crush | 1.764 | 2.116 | 1.671 | |||
| PROXIMATE CONTEXT | ||||||
| Peers | ||||||
| All/most friends dating | 0.929 | 0.774 | 0.843 | |||
| Daily weekday hrs. online with friends | 1.011 | 1.016 | 1.025 | |||
| Family | ||||||
| Live with both bio parents @ age15 | 0.746 | 1.483 | 0.521 | |||
| # Mom’s partner transitions (youth ages 9–15) | 0.771 | 0.787 | 0.698 | |||
| Parents approve dating | 0.816 | 0.710 | 0.626 | |||
| Parents often monitor youth free time | 0.855 | 2.388 | 0.803 | |||
| Digital Access/Exposure | ||||||
| Mobile web access | 1.615 | 3.395 | * | 2.133 | ||
| Daily weekday hrs. surfing web/shopping online | 1.196 | * | 1.036 | 1.151 | ||
| SOCIAL BACKGROUND | ||||||
| Mother’s Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 1.779 | 2.530 | 1.386 | |||
| High school or equivalent | ref | ref | ref | |||
| Some college | 0.666 | 0.048 | * | 1.006 | ||
| College graduate | 0.467 | 0.163 | * | 0.731 | ||
| Parents married at teens’ birth | 1.500 | 5.572 | ** | 1.045 | ||
| Mother foreign born | 0.871 | 3.893 | 0.487 | |||
| Constant | 0.135 | * | 0.036 | 0.110 | * | |
| Pseudo R-Square | 0.100 | 0.327 | 0.154 | |||
Source: FFCWS Baseline survey; Year-9 Child survey; Year-15 Parent and Teen Surveys; mDiary surveys
*
p<0.05
**
p<0.01
***
p<.001.
Estimates weighted and robust standard errors