Table 3.
Age of onset for individual alcohol problems: Race and gender comparisons (N = 166)
| Alcohol Problems | Race |
Gender |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Male | Female | |
| Drinking/drunk while in hazardous situation | 18.96 (2.61) | 20.94 (2.38)a | 18.79 (2.53) | 19.80 (2.73) |
| Black outs due to drinking | 19.30 (3.11) | 18.25 (2.61) | 19.90 (3.20) | 18.40 (2.74) |
| Tolerance to alcohol | 19.96 (2.28) | 20.08 (2.36) | 20.00 (2.49) | 19.96 (2.01) |
| Consider self an excessive drinker | 21.15 (3.11) | 21.14 (3.67) | 21.10 (3.28) | 21.20 (3.04) |
| Arguments while drinking | 18.78 (2.42) | 21.89 (2.85)a | 18.58 (2.80) | 19.96 (2.53) |
| Started drinking at times not intended | 20.39 (2.49) | 21.11 (2.93) | 21.10 (2.22) | 20.08 (2.77) |
| Felt guilty about drinking | 19.84 (4.01) | 21.86 (3.19) | 20.43 (3.78) | 20.08 (4.06) |
| Got drunk when didn’t want to be | 19.79 (2.19) | 20.56 (2.70) | 20.05 (2.35) | 19.89 (2.33) |
| Early morning drinking | 20.33 (1.92) | 22.50 (2.17)b | 20.74 (1.86) | 20.70 (2.71) |
| Hit and threw things while drinking | 19.18 (2.25) | 20.60 (4.16) | 18.79 (2.37) | 20.21 (2.72) |
| Physical fights while intoxicated | 18.92 (2.53) | 23.40 (2.07)a | 19.36 (3.20) | 20.50 (2.14) |
| Wanted to quit or cut down 3 or more times | 21.39 (2.62) | 22.38 (3.11) | 21.69 (2.77) | 21.70 (2.87) |
| Objections about drinking from family/friends/MDd | 18.27 (3.72) | 20.33 (3.06) | 18.15 (2.41) | 18.92 (4.74)c |
Notes: Mean (standard deviation);
a
p < .01;
b
p < .05;
c
Equal variance not assumed;
d
MD = medical doctor.