Table 3.
Results of regression analyses examining prospective associations between social integration with peers and physical health controlling for hostility, extraversion, and physical health in childhood (age 7).
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| Hostility Results | SBP | DBP | (ln)BMI | |||
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| Simultaneous Predictors | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE |
| Race | −3.1 (−.12) | 1.8 | −3.2 (−.16)* | 1.4 | .03 (.06) | .03 |
| Peer Social Integration (ages 7–16) | −.91 (−.14)* | .43 | −.63 (−.13) † | .33 | −.02 (−.17)* | .01 |
| Stratification group (age 6) | −.07 (−.003) | 1.8 | −.13 (−.01) | 1.4 | .01 (.02) | .03 |
| SES (ages 7–9) | .10 (.08) | .08 | .02 (.02) | .06 | .001 (.06) | .001 |
| Childhood BMI (ages 7–9) | .49 (.20)* | .16 | .05 (.03) | .12 | .01 (.29)* | .003 |
| Social integration adulthood (age 32) | −.04 (−.03) | .10 | .04 (.04) | .07 | .00 (−.02) | .002 |
| Hostility in childhood (ages 7–9) | −.66 (−.10) | .45 | −.54 (−.11) | .35 | −.01 (−.06) | .008 |
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| R2 for model | .10 | .07 | .11 | |||
| Extraversion Results | SBP | DBP | (ln)BMI | |||
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| Simultaneous Predictors | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE |
| Race | −3.1 (−.12) | 1.8 | −3.1 (−.16)* | 1.4 | .02 (.03) | .03 |
| Peer Social Integration (ages 7–16) | −1.1 (−.16)* | .45 | −.84 (−.17)* | .34 | −.02 (−.16)* | .008 |
| Stratification group (age 6) | −1.1 (−.04) | 1.7 | −1.1 (−.06) | 1.3 | −.01 (−.01) | .03 |
| SES (ages 7–9) | .11 (.09) | .08 | .03 (.03) | .06 | .002 (.07) | .001 |
| Childhood BMI (ages 7–9) | .47 (.19)* | .16 | .05 (.03) | .12 | .01 (.28)* | .003 |
| Social integration adulthood (age 32) | −.06 (−.04) | .10 | .04 (.03) | .07 | .00 (−.001) | .002 |
| Extraversion (age 16, parent report) | 2.3 (.04) | 3.4 | 1.04 (.03) | 2.6 | .01 (.01) | .06 |
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| R2 for model | .10 | .07 | .10 | |||
| Child Physical Health Results | SBP | DBP | (ln)BMI | |||
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| Simultaneous Predictors | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE | b (β) | SE |
| Race | −3.2 (−.12) | 1.8 | −3.4 (−.17)* | 1.4 | .02 (.05) | .03 |
| Peer social integration (ages 7–16) | −.98 (−.15)* | .43 | −.65 (−.13)* | .34 | −.02 (−.18)* | .008 |
| Stratification group (age 6) | −.85 (−.03) | 1.7 | −.84 (−.04) | 1.3 | .000 (.00) | .03 |
| SES (ages 7–9) | .10 (.08) | .08 | .02 (.03) | .06 | .001 (.06) | .001 |
| Childhood BMI (ages 7–9) | .48 (.20)* | .16 | .05 (.03) | .13 | .01 (.29)* | .003 |
| Social integration adulthood (age 32) | −.03 (−.02) | .10 | .05 (.04) | .07 | .00 (−.01) | .002 |
| Physical health diagnoses (age 7) | −.82 (−.05) | 1.2 | −.28 (−.02) | .90 | .01 (.02) | .02 |
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| R2 for model | .09 | .06 | .11 | |||
BMI = body mass index, measured by parent report in childhood and objectively measured in adulthood. SBP = systolic blood pressure. DBP = diastolic blood pressure.
*
p<.05.
†
p=.06.