Table 5.
Prospective Prediction of Wife Heavy Drinking and Alcohol Problems
| Wife Heavy Drinking | Wife Alcohol Problems | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Risk Ratio | Robust SE | 95% CI | Risk Ratio | Robust SE | 95% CI | ||
| Wife Predictors | ||||||||
| MAT | 0.97* | 0.01 | 0.94 | 0.99 | 0.77*** | 0.05 | 0.67 | 0.88 |
| ABC | 1.19** | 0.06 | 1.07 | 1.32 | 1.52* | 0.30 | 1.04 | 2.24 |
| Negative affect | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.98 | 1.04 | 0.98 | 0.11 | 0.78 | 1.24 |
| Wave 1 heavy drinking | 1.25*** | 0.01 | 1.22 | 1.28 | ||||
| Positive family hx. | 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.95 | 1.05 | 1.13 | 0.17 | 0.84 | 1.53 |
| AEQ-GP | 1.05* | 0.02 | 1.01 | 1.10 | 1.03 | 0.12 | 0.82 | 1.28 |
| AEQ-SPP | 1.08*** | 0.01 | 1.06 | 1.11 | 1.27* | 0.12 | 1.05 | 1.53 |
| AEQ-PA | 0.97 | 0.02 | 0.95 | 1.01 | 1.10 | 0.11 | 0.91 | 1.33 |
| Wave 1 alc. problems | 1.20*** | 0.02 | 1.16 | 1.24 | ||||
| Heavy drinking | 1.43*** | 0.07 | 1.30 | 1.56 | ||||
| Husband Predictors | ||||||||
| MAT | 1.02 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 1.04 | 1.01 | 0.07 | 0.88 | 1.16 |
| ABC | 0.98 | 0.04 | 0.91 | 1.06 | 0.73 | 0.17 | 0.46 | 1.15 |
| Negative affect | 0.99 | 0.01 | 0.97 | 1.02 | 0.97 | 0.10 | 0.79 | 1.20 |
| Heavy drinking | 1.05*** | 0.01 | 1.03 | 1.06 | 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.92 | 1.08 |
| Positive family hx. | 1.04 | 0.03 | 0.99 | 1.10 | 0.89 | 0.15 | 0.64 | 1.25 |
| AEQ-GP | 0.99 | 0.02 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 1.02 | 0.09 | 0.86 | 1.23 |
| AEQ-SPP | 0.98 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 1.01 | 0.98 | 0.09 | 0.83 | 1.17 |
| AEQ-PA | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 1.04 | 1.13 | 0.09 | 0.96 | 1.33 |
| Alcohol problems | 1.04*** | 0.01 | 1.02 | 1.06 | ||||
| Social Network | ||||||||
| H drinking buddies | 0.99 | 0.00 | 0.99 | 1.00 | 0.98 | 0.02 | 0.94 | 1.02 |
| W drinking buddies | 1.03*** | 0.01 | 1.02 | 1.04 | 1.05* | 0.02 | 1.01 | 1.09 |
| H heavy drinkers | 1.00 | 0.01 | 0.99 | 1.01 | 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.93 | 1.07 |
| W heavy drinkers | 1.02** | 0.01 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.04 | 0.96 | 1.09 |
| Wife Covariates | ||||||||
| Age | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.01 | 1.01 | 0.02 | 0.97 | 1.04 |
| Parent prior to marriage | 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.95 | 1.05 | 1.10 | 0.18 | 0.80 | 1.51 |
| Past year pregnancy | 0.93** | 0.02 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 0.81 | 0.14 | 0.57 | 1.14 |
| Months of cohabitation | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.99 | 1.01 |
| Education | 0.99 | 0.03 | 0.94 | 1.04 | 0.91 | 0.16 | 0.64 | 1.29 |
| Race/ethnicity | 1.03 | 0.03 | 0.98 | 1.08 | 0.72* | 0.10 | 0.55 | 0.94 |
| Employment | 1.00 | 0.01 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.10 | 0.84 | 1.24 |
Notes:
*
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.