Table 2.

Means (and standard deviations) of alcohol expectancies and alcohol behaviors by class

Variable	Low expectancies (n = 110)	Moderate drinking (n = 388)	Regular heavy episodes (n = 227)	Frequent heavy episodes (n = 33)
Alcohol expectancies
Social/physical pleasure	3.15 (0.84)a	3.86 (0.60)b	4.01 (0.64)c	4.21 (0.42)d
Social expressiveness	2.28 (0.87)a	3.87 (0.69)b	3.80 (0.89)b	3.78 (0.82)b
Sexual enhancement	1.82 (0.98)a	2.85 (0.86)b	2.92 (0.96)b	2.60 (0.92)b
Cognitive/physical impairment	2.48 (0.98)a	3.58 (0.78)b	3.35 (0.90)c	3.08 (1.00)c
Careless unconcern	2.12 (0.88)a	3.49 (0.72)b	3.41 (0.94)b	3.23 (0.86)b
Alcohol use frequency per week	3.07 (1.66)a	2.94 (1.38)b	3.93 (1.56)b	5.36 (1.25)c
Alcohol use quantity per drinking day	2.23 (0.9 1)a	2.63 (1.00)b	4.48 (1.41)c	6.15 (1.57)d
Heavy drinking episodes per week	0.17 (0.42)a	0.27 (0.44)b	2.30 (0.52)c	4.55 (0.94)d

Note: Means with differing subscripts are significantly different at p < .05