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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2006 May;30(5):763–773. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00089.x

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Family history
Negative
Positive
p Values
Sociability group High Low High Low All Neg/high vs pos/low
N (M/F) 68 (28/40) 20 (15/5) 43 (11/32) 44 (20/24)
Age (year) 23 (4) 23 (0.8) 24 (0.5) 24 (0.5)
Education (year) 16 (0.3) 16 (0.5) 16 (0.3) 14 (0.3) 0.006 0.005
SES 49 (1.6) 49 (2.8) 43 (2.1) 43 (2.0) 0.054 0.16
Shipley vocabulary 30 (0.5) 30 (0.9) 30 (0.6) 28 (0.6) 0.098 0.11
BDI 3.5 (0.5) 5.6 (0.1) 4.7 (0.7) 7.3 (0.7) 0.0003 0.0001
EPI—Neuroticism 5.3 (0.5) 5.4 (1.0) 6.5 (0.6) 7.3 (0.6) 0.09 0.09
AUDIT 2.8 (0.3) 2.8 (0.6) 3.5 (0.4) 3.3 (0.4)
Cahalan (oz/mo) 40 (4) 35 (8) 48 (5) 46 (5)
Caffeine (mg/d) 126 (19) 110 (31) 102 (16) 160 (28)
Tobacco (% using weekly) 9 19 17 21
Drug use (n) 0 1 1 8
Failed drug screen n (%) 0 (0%) 2 (10%) 1 (2%) 7 (16%)

Entries (M, SE) unless given otherwise. SES, Hollingshead & Redlich Socioeconomic Status score. Higher scores reflect higher SES. All scores shown are considered “Middle Class.” Shipley, Shipley Institute of Living vocabulary score. BDI, Beck Depression Inventory. EPI, Eysenck Personality Inventory. AUDIT, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Caffeine, structured interview, all sources. Drug use, number of subjects in a group who reported the most frequent use of one or more of 11 categories of abused or psychoactive drugs other than alcohol. Drug Screen entries reflect the number of subjects (% of the respective group) who failed a urine drug screen given on days of testing.