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Table 3 Associations between parental alcohol use and attention and conduct problems, adjusting for all covariates

From: Parental alcohol use and adolescent school adjustment in the general population: Results from the HUNT study

  

Attention

Conduct

 

N

d

95% C.I.

d

95% C.I.

Maternal alcohol

       

Abuse

130

0.13

 

-0.08 - 0.33

0.17

 

-0.04 - 0.39

At risk

748

0.04

 

-0.04 - 0.12

0.03

 

-0.05 - 0.11

Abstainer

474

-0.05

 

-0.15 - 0.04

-0.09

 

-0.19 - 0.01

Missing response

2714

0.02

 

-0.05 - 0.08

0.02

 

-0.05 - 0.08

Light drinking

4448

0

  

0

  

Paternal alcohol

       

Abuse

209

0.12

 

-0.03 - 0.28

0.05

 

-0.11 - 0.21

At risk

770

0.02

 

-0.05 - 0.10

0.04

 

-0.05 - 0.12

Abstainer

269

0.01

 

-0.11 - 0.13

0.14

*

0.01 - 0.27

Missing response

3861

0.04

 

-0.03 - 0.10

0.04

 

-0.02 - 0.11

Light drinking

3405

0

  

0

  

Adolescent mental distress

       

Distressed

1325

0.79

***

0.72 - 0.85

0.38

***

0.32 - 0.44

Not distressed

7189

0

  

0

  

Maternal mental distress

       

Distressed

677

0.06

 

-0.02 - 0.14

0.00

 

-0.08 - 0.08

Missing response

1658

0.01

 

-0.07 - 0.08

-0.07

 

-0.15 - 0.01

Not distressed

6198

0

  

0

  

Paternal mental distress

  

*

    

Distressed

559

0.11

**

0.03 - 0.20

0.06

 

-0.03 - 0.15

Missing response

2739

0.02

 

-0.05 - 0.09

0.06

 

-0.01 - 0.14

Not distressed

5237

0

  

0

  

Relationship dissolution

       

Dissolved

1841

0.14

***

0.08 - 0.20

0.09

**

0.03 - 0.15

Married or cohabiting

6673

0

  

0

  

Number of friends

     

***

 

None

138

0.18

 

-0.02 - 0.37

-0.34

***

-0.50 - -0.17

One

401

0.08

 

-0.02 - 0.18

-0.24

***

-0.34 - -0.14

Two or three

2735

-0.01

 

-0.06 - 0.03

-0.15

***

-0.20 - -0.11

Four or more

5240

0

  

0

  

Seen parents drunk

  

***

  

***

 

A few times a week

110

0.56

***

0.30 - 0.81

0.62

***

0.37 - 0.87

A few times a month

447

0.41

***

0.31 - 0.52

0.46

***

0.35 - 0.56

A few times a year

1736

0.20

***

0.15 - 0.26

0.33

***

0.27 - 0.39

A few times

3147

0.18

***

0.13 - 0.22

0.23

***

0.18 - 0.28

Never

3074

0

  

0

  
  1. Controlled for demography (adolescent age and sex; parental age, education and income).
  2. Cohen's d express group differences as fractions of standard deviations.
  3. * = p < 0.05; ** = p < 0.01; *** = p < 0.001.