Table 1.

Descriptive statistics

	Month 1 N = 844		Month 2 N = 607		Month 3 N = 528		Totalb N = 1979
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Drinking to cope	1.88	0.90	1.86	0.89	1.85	0.86	1.87	0.89
Anxiety	2.02	0.51	1.98	0.53	1.98	0.51	2.00	0.51
Depression	0.29	0.38	0.25	0.35	0.25	0.36	0.27	0.36
Alcohol usea	3.32	1.10	2.93	1.39	2.76	1.43	3.05	1.31
Drinking problems	1.64	0.60	1.26	0.36	1.23	0.32	1.42	0.51

Note. Drinking to cope measured only at baseline; values reflect levels for participants in that wave.

^alog transformed,

^bMean across all available months.