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Table 2 Alcohol and drug use by predictor variables - percentages (significance of chi-square).

From: Is there an association between seeing incidents of alcohol or drug use in films and young Scottish adults' own alcohol or drug use? A cross sectional study

 

Heavy drinking

(last week)

Binge

Drinking

(last week)

Cannabis

Use (ever)

'Hard' drug

use (ever)

 

%

(sig)

%

(sig)

%

(sig)

%

(sig)

Alcohol use in movies seen

        

Quartile 1

29.9

 

41.4

     

Quartile 2

29.8

 

44.5

     

Quartile 3

31.7

 

46.3

     

Quartile 4

40.2

(.054)

53.0

(.079)

    

Drug use in movies seen

        

Quartile 1

    

49.8

 

11.0

 

Quartile 2

    

47.8

 

8.2

 

Quartile 3

    

59.3

 

13.9

 

Quartile 4

    

64.2

(.001)

16.0

(.059)

Gender

        

Male

40.2

 

52.7

 

63.4

 

16.0

 

Female

25.7

(.000)

40.1

(.000)

47.3

(.000)

8.5

(.000)

Parental social class (age 11)

        

Non-manual

32.2

 

43.4

 

53.1

 

9.2

 

Skilled manual

34.2

 

48.4

 

57.4

 

14.1

 

Semi/unskilled manual

31.3

 

47.0

 

58.2

 

16.5

 

Missing

37.3

(.809)

53.8

(.387)

48.0

(.382)

8.2

(.037)

Parental structure (age 15)

        

Both birth parents

32.7

 

45.5

 

54.3

 

12.1

 

Birth mother/father and new partner

40.2

 

54.9

 

62.7

 

12.7

 

Birth mother/father alone or with other relatives

28.7

(.154)

44.1

(.172)

54.4

(.270)

12.1

(.984)

Parental Bonding Inventory - care (age 15)

        

Low

35.0

 

49.5

 

62.2

 

18.0

 

Medium

33.8

 

47.9

 

56.8

 

10.2

 

High

30.0

(.418)

41.5

(.128)

47.8

(.003)

10.7

(.012)

Parental Bonding Inventory - control (age 15)

        

Low

34.5

 

49.1

 

54.1

 

13.6

 

Medium

30.1

 

43.3

 

53.8

 

10.4

 

High

33.1

(.537)

45.5

(.365)

57.3

(.605)

12.1

(.502)

'I take risks' (age 15)

        

Very untrue

13.0

 

21.7

 

40.4

 

6.5

 

Untrue

22.8

 

37.2

 

39.2

 

5.7

 

True

37.3

 

51.8

 

64.0

 

12.9

 

Very true

49.5

(.000)

55.4

(.000)

64.4

(.000)

29.7

(.000)

'I am a rule breaker' (age 15)

        

Very untrue

22.4

 

34.2

 

37.0

 

6.8

 

Untrue

31.0

 

46.2

 

53.6

 

7.7

 

True

47.9

 

61.3

 

74.2

 

23.2

 

Very true

42.5

(.000)

47.5

(.000)

87.5

(.000)

41.0

(.000)

'Highers' (age 19)

        

None

38.2

 

49.9

 

64.3

 

21.1

 

Any

29.2

(.004)

43.7

(.065)

48.8

(.000)

5.9

(.000)

Friends' drinking status (age 19)

        

None - a few

4.8

 

6.3

     

Half or more

34.9

(.000)

49.2

(.000)

    

Friends' cannabis use (age 19)

        

None - a few

    

47.6

 

7.1

 

Half or more

    

85.2

(.000)

32.3

(.000)

Hours per week tv, videos, dvds (age 19)

        

0-9

31.2

 

43.9

 

53.5

 

7.6

 

10-19

33.4

 

48.6

 

57.3

 

12.1

 

20-29

31.3

 

42.6

 

53.8

 

14.4

 

30-39

32.6

 

46.8

 

58.9

 

17.9

 

40 or more

39.8

(.678)

51.8

(.475)

50.6

(.702)

8.6

(.089)

(N)

(922)

 

(928)

 

(926)

 

(926)

 
  1. (Analyses restricted to those with valid responses on all variables relevant to each outcome.)