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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2009 Dec;23(4):553–563. doi: 10.1037/a0017129

Table 5.

Summaries of prospective regression analyses predicting time 2 problem drinking

Time 2 Alcohol-related problems
(N = 169)
Time 2 Heavy episodic drinking
(N = 178)
First entry in model Final model First entry in model Final model
Time 1 predictor variables B SE B β B SE B β B SE B β B SE B β
Step 1, R squared change = .23*** R squared change = .32***
Time 1 problem drinking variable 0.52 0.07 0.48*** 0.26 0.09 0.24** 0.64 0.07 0.56*** 0.58 0.09 0.51***
Step 2, R squared change = .04**
Overall drinks per week 0.19 0.07 0.22** 0.22 0.08 0.25** n/a n/a
Step 3, R squared change = .00 R squared change = .01
Gender (male coded 1, female 2) 0 0.05 0.01 −0.04 0.05 −0.05 −0.03 0.03 −0.07 −0.04 0.03 −0.09
Step 4, R squared change = .02 R squared change = .01
Depression 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.02 0.07 0.02 −0.04 0.04 −0.07 −0.06 0.04 −0.10
Sensation seeking −0.03 0.02 −0.14 −0.03 0.02 −0.14 0 0.01 0 0 0.01 −0.01
Step 5, R squared change = .05*** R squared change = .01
Impaired control 0.09 0.03 0.26*** 0.09 0.03 0.27** 0.03 0.02 0.12 0.01 0.02 0.04
Step 6, R squared change = .01 R squared change = .04*
Euphoric/social disinhibition n/a 0 0 −0.02 n/a 0.01 0 0.20**
Dysphoric disinhibition n/a 0.13 0.12 0.08 n/a 0.09 0.07 0.08
Sexual disinhibition n/a −0.07 0.13 −0.04 n/a −0.07 0.08 −0.07
Model R squared = 0.34 Model R squared = 0.38

Note. B indicates the unstandardized regression coefficient and β indicates the standardized coefficient.

*

p ≤ .05,

**

p ≤ .01,

***

p ≤ .001