Research Article

Contemporaneous and Lagged Effects of Life Domains and Substance Use: A Test of Agnew's General Theory of Crime and Delinquency

Table 4

OLS regressions of Time 2 life domain variables on Time 1 life domain variables (lagged effects).

Model 1 ( ) Model 2 ( ) Model 3 ( ) Model 4 ( ) Model 5 ( ) Model 6 ( )
T2 low self-control/T1
effect − T2 effecta
T2 close
communication with
parents/T1 effect − T2
effect
T2 negative
attachment to school
T1 effect − T2 effect
T2 low educational
Goal/T1 effect − T2
effect
T2 homework Time/T1
effect − T2 effect
T2 conventional
Peers/T1 effect − T2
effect

Life domains
 T1 low self-control0.330* (0.015)−0.064* (0.012)−0.0380.022* (0.005)−0.002 0.059* (0.008)0.044−0.038** (0.019)0.021−0.050* (0.009)−0.044
 T1 close communication with parents0.029 (0.017)0.0120.452* (0.014)−0.007 (0.005)0.012 −0.027** (0.009)0.1460.058* (0.015)0.0030.047* (0.011)0.082
 T1 negative attachment to school0.129** (0.038)0.023−0.062*** (0.030)0.0310.347* (0.012)0.007 (0.020)−0.002−0.079* (0.034)0.040−0.126* (0.023)−0.059
 T1 low educational goals0.096* (0.027)0.184−0.157* (0.020)0.1450.009 (0.008)−0.0060.472* (0.013)−0.139* (0.022)0.050−0.050* (0.014)0.064
 T1 homework time−0.018 (0.016)0.0530.017 (0.013)0.030−0.016** (0.005)0.003 −0.026** (0.009)0.0550.295* (0.015)0.023** (0.010)0.017
 T1 conventional peers0.018 (0.022)−0.0050.054** (0.017)0.124−0.011 (0.007)0.008−0.010 (0.011)0.0800.062** (0.019)0.0090.240* (0.013)
Controls
 T1 victimization0.318* (0.080)−0.067 (0.065)0.092* (0.025)−0.002 (0.043)0.072 (0.072)−0.061 (0.050)
 T1 drank alcohol0.377* (0.086)−0.024 (0.069)−0.008 (0.027)0.010 (0.046)−0.217** (0.077)−0.110*** (0.054)
 T1 used marijuana0.406*** (0.199)0.116 (0.142)−0.019 (0.054)0.025 (0.092)0.305 (0.158)−0.344* (0.109)
 T0 prior smoking cigarettes0.285 (0.237)−0.314 (0.171)0.037 (0.065)0.339** (0.111)0.106 (0.191)−0.313*** (0.132)
 Gender0.668* (0.081)−0.455* (0.066)−0.050*** (0.025)−0.021 (0.043)−0.107 (0.072)−0.505* (0.051)
 African American0.040 (0.181)0.703* (0.146)−0.001 (0.055)−0.265** (0.097)−0.139 (0.160)0.062 (0.113)
 White−0.251*** (0.106)0.541* (0.088)0.014 (0.033)0.110 (0.059)−0.052 (0.097)−0.223** (0.067)
 Parent education−0.177* (0.050)0.109** (0.041)−0.038** (0.016)−0.117* (0.028)0.063 (0.045)0.099** (0.032)
 Family SES quartile0.022 (0.099)0.184*** (0.074)0.043 (0.028)−0.211* (0.048)−0.032 (0.081)−0.078 (0.057)
 School type−0.019 (0.126)−0.189*** (0.103)0.479* (0.040)0.050 (0.071)−0.170 (0.115)−0.134 (0.080)
 School area−0.058 (0.058)−0.012 (0.047)−0.016 (0.018)0.126* (0.031)0.036 (0.052)−0.014 (0.036)

Intercept5.334*6.712*2.237*1.417*4.642*9.610*

Adjusted- 0.200.300.200.370.130.16

Note: entries are unstandardized coefficients; standard errors are in parentheses.
aThe right side of each column displays the differences in terms of the regression coefficients between the contemporaneous (result from Table 3) and lagged effects (result from Table 4) of the life domain variables.
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