Table 3 presents the results of negative binomial regressions assessing the impact of individual candidate mediators on Black-White and Latino-White disparities. Among both Blacks and Latinos, results substantiate roles for all factors, again excepting norms. Among Blacks, adjustments for income, education, employment status, racial/ethnic stigma, unfair treatment, age, and marital status all reduced the size of the coefficient representing the Black (vs. White) intercept difference for dependence symptom count. Among Latinos, results for dependence are similar, except that neighborhood disadvantage was significant while marital status was not (though estimates show a reduced coefficient size). For alcohol-related consequences, evidence supports mediation for a reduced set of these variables, for Blacks including income, education, unfair treatment, and marital status, and for Latinos including income, education, employment status, racial/ethnic stigma, and unfair treatment. Racial/ethnic disparities were actually nonsignificantly larger when accounting for minority men’s more conservative drinking norms.
