Experimenting with cigarettes and physical activity among Mexican origin youth: a cross sectional analysis of the interdependent associations among sensation seeking, acculturation, and gender

Table 4 Logistic regression for cigarette experimentation by acculturation

	Lowest acculturation N = 388			Medium acculturation N = 429			Highest acculturation N = 309
	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value
Demographic factors
Age	1.41	1.06–1.88	0.020	1.99	1.52–2.62	<0.001	2.02	1.45–2.81	<0.001
Country of Birth	1.20	0.65–2.21	0.567	1.74	0.92–3.29	0.087	1.49	0.54–4.12	0.441
Gender	2.30	1.19–4.44	0.013	1.95	1.12–3.37	0.018	1.44	0.73–2.81	0.290
Parental Education	0.76	0.47–1.21	0.243	0.81	0.58–1.14	0.232	0.97	0.67–1.41	0.890
Sensation seeking subscales
Thrill & Adventure Seeking	1.01	0.89–1.14	0.914	1.06	0.96–1.17	0.256	1.06	0.91–1.16	0.620
Social Disinhibition	1.30	1.06–1.59	0.011	1.14	0.95–1.37	0.113	1.00	0.80–1.26	0.999
Drug & Alcohol Attitudes	1.30	1.05–1.61	0.016	1.66	1.39–1.98	<0.001	1.74	1.43–2.12	<0.001

Note: Female served as the reference category for gender. Born in Mexico served as the reference category for country of birth. Age was entered as a continuous variable. The highest level of education served as the reference category for parental educational attainment.

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