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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 Mar 27;32(5):888–894. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00648.x

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Family history Negative Positive


CPI-So group High Low High Low p values for group comparisons





n (F) 94 (53) 22 (8) 61 (45) 53 (28) All Hi− vs. Lo+ FH CPI-So
Age (year) 23.6 (.5) 22.8 (1.0) 23.2 (.6) 24.3 (.7) NS NS NS NS
SES 48.7 (1.4) 51.5 (2.8) 41.0 (1.8) 41.7 (1.8) 0.0002 0.01 0.0001 NS
Education (year) 15.6 (.2) 15.2 (.4) 15.4 (.2) 14.4 (.3) 0.007 0.004 0.032 0.002
Shipley vocabulary 31 (.4) 29 (.8) 30 (.5) 29 (.5) 0.079 NS NS 0.01
BDI 3.4 (.5) 6.1 (.9) 4.6 (.6) 7.1 (.6) 0.0001 0.0001 0.002 0.0001
EPI – Neuroticism 4.9 (.4) 5.7 (.9) 5.9 (.5) 7.4 (.6) 0.005 0.002 0.005 0.006
Caffeine (mg/d) 110 (14) 110 (30) 104 (18) 153 (19) NS NS NS NS
AUDIT 2.5 (.3) 3.3 (.6) 3.2 (.4) 3.9 (.4) 0.052 0.035 0.026 NS
Cahalan (oz/mo) 35 (4) 38 (8) 46 (5) 52 (5) 0.048 0.044 0.007 NS
Tobacco (% using weekly) 5 23 10 26 0.0013 0.0003 0.04 0.0001
Drug use (n) 0 1 1 8
Failed drug screen (n) 0 (0%) 2 (8%) 1 (1%) 7 (12%)

Entries are M (SE) unless given otherwise.

All, p-values comparing all 4 risk groups using full multivariate model. Post-hoc Tukey comparisons as follows: Hi− vs. Lo+, Hi Risk vs. Lo Risk subgroups; FH, FH+ vs. FH− groups; CPI-So, California Personality Inventory Sociability scale scores <30 vs. ≥30; Tobacco use comparisons based on chi-square test. SES, Hollingshead and Redlich Socioeconomic Status score. All scores shown are considered “Middle Class.” Shipley, Shipley Institute of Living vocabulary score; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; EPI, Eysenck Personality Inventory; Caffeine, caffeine consumption from all sources by structured interview; AUDIT, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; Cahalan, estimated alcohol intake from volume and frequency reports by structured interview; Drug use, number of subjects in each group who reported “ever using” 1 or more of 11 categories of illicit or prescription psychoactive drugs other than alcohol; Failed Drug Screen, number of subjects and percentage of each group who failed a urine drug screen given on a scheduled day of testing.