Table 2.
Psychological Measures and Psychiatric Symptom Counts
| Older, Long-term Abstinent Alcohol | Older Normal Controls | Middle-Aged Abstinent Alcoholics | Middle-aged Normal Controls | Effect Size (%)b | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Men (n=49) | Women (n=40) | Men (n=24) | Women (n=29) | Men (n=28) | Women (n=24) | Men (n=25) | Women (n=23) | |
| Total Psychiatric Sx a | 25.1 ± 19.0 | 30.0 ± 14.4 | 12.8 ± 10.1 | 17.5 ± 14.7 | 46.5 ± 23.6 | 43.9 ± 25.2 | 13.8± 12.7 | 21.3 ± 18.1 | 4.2** |
| Anxiety | |||||||||
| Anxiety Sx a | 8.12 ± 8.8 | 9.87 ± 9.1 | 3.96 ± 3.9 | 7.00 ± 7.4 | 14.7 ± 13.0 | 14.9 ± 13.3 | 3.28 ± 4.3 | 7.91 ± 8.7 | 2.3** |
| ASI | 20.9 ± 11.2 | 19.8 ± 8.9 | 13.3 ± 9.4 | 15.0 ± 10.1 | 20.1 ± 11.9 | 21.7 ± 13.5 | 12.9 ± 8.8 | 14.6 ± 11.7 | 0.1 |
| STAI-S | 29.9 ± 8.8 | 26.8 ± 5.0 | 26.7 ± 5.6 | 26.9 ± 6.0 | 31.9 ± 10.9 | 32.2 ± 6.8 | 28.0 ± 9.9 | 26.3 ± 7.5 | 1.1 |
| STAI-T | 35.0 ± 9.5 | 33.0 ± 7.1 | 32.3 ± 7.3 | 33.5 ± 8.7 | 41.1 ± 10.9 | 41.5 ± 10.4 | 33.6 ± 8.3 | 33.1 ± 9.5 | 3.4** |
| Mood | |||||||||
| Mood Sx a | 6.7 ± 8.7 | 12.5 ± 8.2 | 4.3 ± 6.2 | 8.0 ± 9.8 | 16.8 ± 12.7 | 18.3 ± 14.8 | 4.56 ± 7.4 | 10.4 ± 9.4 | 2.7** |
| MMPI-D | 19.8 ± 5.3 | 19.2 ± 3.7 | 19.3 ± 3.8 | 19.6 ± 4.4 | 22.8 ± 6.9 | 24.2 ± 7.1 | 18.0 ± 4.1 | 18.9 ± 5.1 | 5.4*** |
| MMPI-H | 16.9 ± 4.1 | 17.8 ± 4.0 | 14.7 ± 4.6 | 15.3 ± 5.3 | 19.9 ± 5.5 | 16.0 ± 4.2 | 15.6 ± 3.7 | 15.4 ± 4.1 | 0 |
| Externalizing | |||||||||
| Externalizing Sx a | 10.3 ± 6.3 | 7.65 ± 5.1 | 4.54 ± 3.5 | 2.48 ± 2.7 | 15.1 ± 7.9 | 10.8 ± 7.0 | 6.00 ± 5.5 | 2.96 ± 3.2 | 1.7** |
| CPI-SS | 32.3 ± 4.1 | 33.2 ± 4.1 | 35.9 ± 4.4 | 37.7 ± 3.7 | 27.4 ± 5.7 | 29.8 ± 5.9 | 36.2 ± 4.0 | 36.3 ± 4.0 | 3.7** |
| MMPI-PD | 17.7 ± 4.4 | 16.9 ± 2.7 | 14.7 ± 2.9 | 14.6 ± 3.9 | 21.8 ± 4.2 | 21.5 ± 3.8 | 16.7 ± 3.0 | 16.2 ± 3.3 | 2.9** |
Measure scores are reported mean ± standard deviation
Effect is significant:
*
p≤0.05
**
p≤0.01
***
p≤0.001
a
Lifetime symptoms
b
Percent of variance of the dependent variable accounted for by the Study × Group effect. Note that analyses are uncontrolled for multiple comparisons