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Table 4 Chi-square tests of prediction of females’ and males’ heavy episodic drinking and risk-use of alcohol

From: Gender-specific predictors of at-risk adolescents’ hazardous alcohol use—a cohort study

 

Female HED

Male HED

Female risk-use

Male risk-use

χ2 (df)

p

χ2 (df)

p

χ2 (df)

p

χ2 (df)

p

Mother’s country of birth

1.44 (2)

.486

1.36 (2)

.507

2.94 (2)

.230

1.70 (2)

.427

Father’s country of birth

0.57 (2)

.752

1.34 (3)

.718

0.99 (2)

.608

2.23 (2)

.358

Own money to spend

8.16 (6)

.227

13.05(6)

.042

1.89 (6)

.930

13.98 (6)

.030

Family economic standard

1.87 (4)

.759

0.87(4)

.929

6.73 (4)

.151

10.85 (4)

.029

  1. Statistic significance was p = .01