Table 4.
Prospective Prediction of Husband Heavy Drinking and Alcohol Problems
| Husband heavy drinking | Husband alcohol problems | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Risk ratio | Robust SE | 95% CI | Risk ratio | Robust SE | 95% CI | ||
| Husband Predictors | ||||||||
| MAT | 0.97 | 0.02 | 0.94 | 1.01 | 0.87** | 0.05 | 0.79 | 0.97 |
| ABC | 1.08+ | 0.04 | 0.99 | 1.16 | 1.19 | 0.19 | 0.87 | 1.63 |
| Negative affect | 1.00 | 0.01 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.13+ | 0.08 | 0.99 | 1.29 |
| Wave 1 heavy drinking | 1.22*** | 0.01 | 1.20 | 1.24 | ||||
| Positive family hx. | 0.99 | 0.03 | 0.94 | 1.05 | 1.04 | 0.11 | 0.85 | 1.28 |
| AEQ-GP | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.98 | 1.06 | 0.91 | 0.09 | 0.75 | 1.10 |
| AEQ-SPP | 1.12*** | 0.02 | 1.09 | 1.15 | 1.29*** | 0.09 | 1.13 | 1.48 |
| AEQ-PA | 0.99 | 0.02 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 1.33*** | 0.09 | 1.16 | 1.53 |
| Wave 1 Alc. problems | 1.09*** | 0.01 | 1.08 | 1.11 | ||||
| Heavy drinking | 1.37*** | 0.05 | 1.27 | 1.48 | ||||
| Wife Predictors | ||||||||
| MAT | 0.97 | 0.02 | 0.94 | 1.01 | 0.98 | 0.06 | 0.86 | 1.12 |
| ABC | 1.10 | 0.07 | 0.97 | 1.26 | 1.11 | 0.20 | 0.78 | 1.58 |
| Negative affect | 0.99 | 0.02 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 0.95 | 0.07 | 0.83 | 1.08 |
| Heavy drinking | 1.06*** | 0.01 | 1.04 | 1.08 | 0.95 | 0.04 | 0.88 | 1.02 |
| Positive family hx. | 1.02 | 0.03 | 0.97 | 1.08 | 1.16 | 0.12 | 0.94 | 1.43 |
| AEQ-GP | 1.00 | 0.02 | 0.96 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.07 | 0.83 | 1.12 |
| AEQ-SPP | 0.99 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 1.08 | 0.07 | 0.95 | 1.21 |
| AEQ-PA | 0.99 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 0.07 | 0.88 | 1.15 |
| Alcohol problems | 1.04*** | 0.01 | 1.02 | 1.07 | ||||
| Social Network | ||||||||
| H drinking buddies | 1.02*** | 0.01 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 1.05** | 0.02 | 1.01 | 1.08 |
| W drinking buddies | 1.00 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 1.01 | 0.99 | 0.02 | 0.96 | 1.03 |
| H heavy drinkers | 1.01 | 0.01 | 1.00 | 1.02 | 1.06** | 0.02 | 1.02 | 1.11 |
| W heavy drinkers | 0.99 | 0.01 | 0.98 | 1.01 | 0.97 | 0.03 | 0.92 | 1.03 |
| Husband Covariates | ||||||||
| Age | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 1.03 |
| Parent prior to marriage | 0.98 | 0.03 | 0.92 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 0.13 | 0.79 | 1.31 |
| Past year pregnancy | 0.98 | 0.03 | 0.93 | 1.03 | 0.87 | 0.10 | 0.70 | 1.09 |
| Months of cohabitation | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.01 |
| Education | 1.01 | 0.03 | 0.96 | 1.06 | 1.02 | 0.12 | 0.82 | 1.28 |
| Race/ethnicity | 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.94 | 1.06 | 1.05 | 0.12 | 0.84 | 1.31 |
| Employment | 0.97* | 0.02 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.07 | 0.87 | 1.14 |
Notes:
+
p ≤.08
*
p < .05
**
p< .01
***
p < .001
MAT: Marital Adjustment Test; ABC; Antisocial Behavior Checklist; Positive family hx: Positive family history of alcoholism; AEQ-GP: Global Positive-Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire; AEQ-SPP: Social/Physical Pleasure-Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire; AEQ-PA: Power and Aggression-Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire. Italicized variables were modeled as time varying predictors; variables in normal font were modeled as time invariant predictors.