Table 3 Hierarchical Logistic Regression analysis of adolescents’ individual attributes and their social network variables predicting risky sexual behavior (N = 806)

Age of respondents

1.04(.84 – 1.30)

1.35(1.05 – 1.74)*

 Male®

1

1

 Female

2.48(1.56 – 3.93)*

2.50 (1.50 – 4.18)**

 Rural®

1

1

 Urban

.872(.55 – 1.38)

1.42(.84 – 2.40)

 With both parents®

1

1

 With single parents

5.13(3.05 – 8.72)**

5.00(2.82 – 8.87)**

 With others

1.39(.51 – 3.79)

1.75(.62 – 4.95)

 Never ®

1

1

 Sometimes

3.37(1.45 – 3.87)**

2.42(1.43 – 4.13)**

 Quite often

3.60(1.30 – 9.98)*

3.68(1.27 – 10.70)*

 Never ®

1

1

 Sometimes

1.85(1.06 – 3.23)*

1.88(1.04 – 3.40)*

 Quite often

2.48(.78 – 7.72)

2.25(.66 – 6.59)

 Network size

–

.84 (.72 – .97)*

 Network members’ sexual norm

–

1.61(1.04 – 2.50)*

 Network tie strength

–

1.12(1.06 – 1.19)**

 Network homogeneity

–

1.58(.98 – 2.55)*

 Model G² (−2log likelihood)

316.478

228.702

 Degree of freedom

9

13

 Changed Chi-square

90.985**

133.532**