Becoming obese in young adulthood: the role of career-family pathways in the transition to adulthood for men and women

Table 5 Log-odds estimates (and SE) from a logistic regression model with obesity risk at age 28 as the dependent variable

	Coefficient	Standard error
Constant	−1.020^***	0.191
Obesity age 17	2.798^***	0.126
Female	0.367^*	0.181
Pregnant at 28	0.373^**	0.135
Parental income
Quartile 1	ref.
Quartile 2	−0.105	0.130
Quartile 3	0.053	0.138
Quartile 4	−0.269	0.151
Missing	−0.233	0.129
Parental education
Less than high school	ref.
High school diploma	−0.091	0.132
Some college	−0.275	0.143
4 year college or more	−0.436^**	0.152
Missing	0.028	0.224
Family structure
Both biological parents	ref.
1 biological, 1 step-parent	−0.126	0.131
Single parent	0.025	0.101
Other	−0.237	0.204
Race
White	ref.
Black	0.367^***	0.103
Hispanic	0.039	0.112
Other	0.326	0.333
Career-family clusters
UE-P	ref.
UE-UC-CH	−0.085	0.237
CO-E-M	0.470^*	0.214
UE-S-CH	−0.198	0.208
UE-M-CH	0.295	0.190
CO-E-UC	−0.180	0.236
CO-E-S	−0.176	0.177
UE-S	−0.035	0.214
Interactions Career-family clusters*female
UE-P*female	ref.
UE-UC-CH*female	−0.008	0.347
CO-E-M*female	−0.659^*	0.300
UE-S-CH*female	−0.031	0.277
UE-M-CH*female	−0.532^*	0.268
CO-E-UC*female	−0.297	0.326
CO-E-S*female	−0.772^**	0.276
UE-S *female	−0.220	0.379
Observations	4688

Obesity is the dependent variable and defined in the model as a dichotomous variable indicating 0 = not obese 1 = obese at age 28, this coding applies also for the independent variable obesity at age 17
The career-family clusters are coded using a the following scheme: CO college education, E (stable) employed, UE unemployed or unstable employment, M married, UC unmarried cohabitation, S single, P = living in the parental home, CH = having (had) a child(ren)
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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