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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2013 Mar 25;27(3):562–572. doi: 10.1037/a0031915

Table 1.

Prevalence of Endorsements for All Variables

Operationalization Prevalence
Demographic characteristics
 Dad’s education >12 years 54.6%
 Dad’s education 41.7%
 Mom’s education >12 years 75.6%
 Mom’s education 16.2%
 Higher income ≥$62,500 14.8%
 Lower income ≤$25,500 19.7%
 Offspring age ≥21 years 55.8%
 Offspring race African American 14.4%
Risk factors
 Early onset ≤14 years 23.7%
 Late onset ≥18 years 19.6%
 ADHD 6+ inattention sx or 6+ hyperactive sx for 6+ months 15.2%
 ODD 4+ oppositional-defiant sx for 6 + months 15.6%
 CD 3+ conduct disorder sx for 12+ months 7.5%
 MDD 5+ major depression sx for 2+ weeks 30.9%
PTSD PTSD criteria 1+ month 7.1%
 Phobia Unreasonable fear (with embarrassment) for 6+ months 14.3%
 Trauma Life at risk in an accident, disaster, witnessed a killing, raped, molested, physically attacked, abused, neglected, threat with weapon or kidnapped 47.3%
 Inconsistent rules when parented 1-item 42.6%
 Parent-child arguments (often) 1-item 21.1%
 Parental divorce or separation 1-item 33.3%
Religion/spiritual variables
 Motivation-devotion Sum of ratings on 4 items dichotomized by median split 58.9%
 Attendance Once per week+ 27.1%
 Existential well-being Sum of ratings on 4 items dichotomized by median split 56.7%
 Rules against any alcohol use 1-item 41.1%
 Raised with a differentiating affiliation Family affiliation at age 6–13 53.4%
 Differentiating affiliation Current (see Methods) 47.5%
 Accommodating affiliation Current (see Methods) 12.3%
 Catholic affiliation Current (see Methods) 22.5%
 No affiliation Current (see Methods) 17.7%
Alcohol progression n %
 1st drink endorsed 3389 of 4001 84.7%
 “At-risk” drinking endorsed (given 1st drink) 2675 of 3389 78.9%
 AD dx endorsed (given at-risk drinking) 401 of 2675 15.0%