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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2010 Jun 16;112(1-2):9–17. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.04.019

Table 1.

Covariation of lifetime psychopathologya and lifetime alcohol dependence: U.S. adults 18 years of age and older, by sex

Type of lifetime psychopathologya
Neither internalizing nor externalizing (NINE) (n=30,189) Internalizing only (IO) (n=10,771) Externalizing only (EO) (n=737) Both internalizing and externalizing (BIE) (n=1,396)
% SE % SE % SE % SE
Prevalence of selected types of psychopathology in the total population
 Male (n=18,518) 74.7 (0.6) 17.7 (0.4) 3.1 (0.2) 4.5 (0.2)
 Female (n=24,575) 65.4 (0.7) 31.3 (0.7) 0.7 (0.1) 2.6 (0.1)
p-value gender diff. <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
Prevalence of selected types of psychopathology among lifetime alcoholics
 Male (n=2,974) 47.6 (1.1) b 27.1 (0.9) b 8.6 (0.6) b 16.7 (0.9) b
 Female (n=1,807) 29.0 (1.3) b 50.8 (1.4) b 3.5 (0.5) b 16.7 (1.0) b
p-value gender diff. <.001 <.001 <.001 .966
Prevalence of lifetime alcohol dependence by type of psychopathology
 Male 11.1 (0.4) 26.5 (1.0) 48.1 (2.4) 64.2 (2.1)
 Female 3.5 (0.2) 12.9 (0.5) 39.5 (4.6) 51.4 (2.6)
p-value gender diff. <.001 <.001 .109 <.001

Note: Figures in parentheses are standard errors of percentages. Shaded cells indicate percentages that are significantly different (p<.05) for males and females.

a

Internalizing = major depressive disorder, bipolar 1 or 2 disorder, dysthymia, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, specific and social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder; externalizing = illicit drug dependence, ASPD

b

Significantly different (p<.001) than comparable percentage in the total population