Mid-Adolescent Predictors of Adult Drinking Levels in Early Adulthood and Gender Differences: Longitudinal Analyses Based on the South Australian School Leavers Study

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis: significant age 15 predictors of drinking level over 5 years.

		SE	Wald	OR	95% conf int
Intercept	−2.09
Family adjustment	−0.04	0.02	3.61	0.96	0.92–1.00
Smoking	2.06	0.42	24.63	7.87	3.48–17.76
Marijuana use	1.08	0.54	4.02	2.95	1.03–8.49
GHQ-12	0.16	0.06	7.64	1.17	1.05–1.30

< 0.05, < 0.01, and < 0.001.
Notes: dependent measure coded (1 = lower drinking level; 2 = higher drinking level). Self-esteem, social alienation, and life-satisfaction were eliminated because their inclusion did not contribute to any significant changes in the log-linear likelihood ratio.