Table 1.

Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism offspring Pearson product-moment correlations among manifest and latent variables used in the structural equation models (SEMs) (N = 325)

	LR	ALCOUT	EXPECT	COPE	PEER	AGE
ALCOUT	.45‡
EXPECT	.10	.30‡
COPE	.13*	.57‡	.62‡
PEER	.19*	.57‡	.27‡	.40‡
AGE	.03	.15*	−.04	.03	.04
GENDER	−.27‡	−.27*	−.05	−.01	−.01	.03

Notes: LR (level of response) is the manifest variable of the level of response using the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol, where a higher score represents a lower LR reflecting more drinks required for an effect; ALCOUT represents the alcohol-related outcomes as the latent variable in the SEM; EXPECT is the alcohol expectancies latent variable; COPE represents the latent variable from the Drinking to Cope scale; the PEER score is a latent variable generated from the peer drinking scores; whereas AGE and GENDER are manifest variables as determined from the interviews.

^* p < .05;

^‡ p < .001.