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Socioeconomic Status Partially Mediates the Effects of Structural Racism on Youth Tobacco Use Initiation

Global Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease | Vol 4, Issue 1

Table 2. Correlation between state-level structuralracism and other study variables.

1 Structural Racism

1.00

2 Race (Black)

0.15*

1.00

3 Race (Latino)

0.06*

-0.17*

1.00

4 Race (Asian)

-0.03*

-0.05*

-0.07*

1.00

5 Race (Other)

0.03*

-0.13*

-0.16*

-0.05*

1.00

6 Sex (Male)

0.00

-0.02*

0.00

-0.01

1.00

7 Age

-0.01

0.01

-0.02*

0.02*

-0.01

0.02*

1.00

8 Financial Difficulties at Baseline

0.12*

0.22*

0.06*

-0.05*

0.06*

0.01

-0.01

1.00

9 Married Household at Baseline

-0.11*

-0.34*

-0.10*

0.06*

-0.04*

0.02*

0.01

-0.27*

1.00

10 Household Income at Baseline

-0.19*

-0.37*

-0.20*

0.07*

-0.03*

0.00

0.04*

-0.43*

0.54*

1.00

11 Parental Education at Baseline

-0.14*

-0.26*

-0.25*

0.10*

0.00

0.01

-0.31*

0.39*

0.64*

1.00

12 Tobacco Susceptibility at Baseline

0.01

0.02

0.00

-0.01

0.03*

0.06*

-0.01

0.02*

-0.02*

-0.03*

-0.01

1.00

13 Perceived Discrimination

0.08*

0.18*

0.05*

-0.02*

0.02*

0.08*

-0.02*

0.15*

-0.13*

-0.20*

-0.17*

0.07*

1.00

14 Socioeconomic Status (Principal Component)

-0.19*

-0.39*

-0.21*

0.09*

-0.04*

0.00

0.02*

-0.62*

0.72*

0.88*

0.75*

-0.02*

-0.21*

1.00

15 Subsequent Tobacco Use

0.05*

0.00

0.03*

-0.03*

0.01

0.00

0.06*

0.05*

-0.07*

-0.06*

-0.07*

0.06*

0.05*

-0.08*

1.00

* p < 0.05; Pearson correlation