Table 1.
Treatment status group
|
||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Treatment (n = 222)
|
Nontreatment (n = 250)
|
|||||||
Characteristic | % | M | SD | Skew | % | M | SD | Skew |
Demographic | ||||||||
Race | ||||||||
White | 47 | 46 | ||||||
Non-White | 53 | 54 | ||||||
High school education or more | 76 | 75 | ||||||
Marital status | ||||||||
Married | 49 | 51 | ||||||
Cohabiting | 51 | 49 | ||||||
Employed | 33 | 34 | ||||||
Occupational status | 3.87 | 1.96 | 0.59 | 3.77 | 1.84 | 0.46 | ||
Age (years) | 34.85 | 8.38 | 0.75 | 35.63 | 8.99 | 0.70 | ||
Partner prior treatment | 54 | |||||||
Escape coping | 9.40 | 5.44 | 0.27 | 9.00 | 5.21 | 0.26 | ||
Significant-other Behavior Questionnairea | ||||||||
Punishes Drinking | 2.44 | 0.77 | 0.07 | 2.47 | 0.79 | 0.22 | ||
Supports Sobriety | 2.88 | 0.68 | −0.32 | 2.69 | 0.72 | 0.00 | ||
Supports Drinking | 1.60 | 0.54 | 0.97 | 1.62 | 0.48 | 0.75 | ||
Withdraws from Drinking | 2.14 | 0.54 | 0.23 | 2.14 | 0.61 | 0.43 | ||
SSI similarity | ||||||||
Form Ab | 2.29 | 0.82 | 0.55 | 2.49 | 0.72 | 0.53 | ||
Form Bc | 2.21 | 0.79 | 0.62 | 2.49 | 0.81 | 0.15 | ||
SSI performance | ||||||||
Form Ab | 2.96 | 0.32 | −0.43 | 2.98 | 0.31 | −0.06 | ||
Form Bc | 2.97 | 0.32 | −0.26 | 2.93 | 0.36 | −0.58 | ||
Participant functioning | ||||||||
Quantity-frequency index | 1.66 | 4.30 | 4.91 | 1.14 | 2.97 | 4.25 | ||
Depressiond | 25.89 | 14.08 | 0.47 | 25.25 | 15.16 | 0.39 | ||
Partner functioning | ||||||||
Drinking dayse | 74.70 | 64.04 | 0.36 | 119.09 | 56.52 | −.37 | ||
Precontemplationf | 17.01 | 4.90 | −0.41 |
Note. SSI = Spouse Situation Inventory.
Excludes participants who reported abstinent partners in the previous 6 months; treatment and nontreatment ns = 178 and 241, respectively.
Treatment and nontreatment ns = 115 and 125, respectively.
Treatment and nontreatment ns = 107 and 125, respectively.
Treatment and nontreatment ns = 190 and 224, respectively.
Treatment and nontreatment ns = 209 and 242, respectively.
Nontreatment partners who participated and drank over the previous 6 months; n = 99.