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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2013 Jun;21(3):222–234. doi: 10.1037/a0032337

Table 2.

Demographic Characteristics and Descriptive Statistics for Caffeine, Alcohol and Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Use Patterns as a Function of Experimental Group.

Group 1, no
caffeine and
no
expectancy
Group 2,
caffeine and
caffeine
expectancy
Group 3, no
caffeine and
caffeine
expectancy
Group 4,
caffeine and
no
expectancy
n = 37 n = 35 n = 35 n = 39
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Age 24.27 (2.21) 24.03 (2.60) 24.03 (2.20) 24.08 (2.38)
Caffeine*
Frequency 5.64 (2.07) 5.49 (1.96) 5.22 (2.17) 5.38 (2.02)
Quantity 1.85 (.84) 1.82 (.85) 2.09 (1.30) 1.69 (.81)
Alcohol
Frequency 3.92 (1.64) 3.63 (1.65) 3.83 (1.44) 4.44 (1.76)
Quantity** 3.81 (1.61) 3.39 (1.54) 3.38 (1.68) 3.90 (1.76)
Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages
Frequency 1.81 (1.58) 2.03 (2.41) 1.60 (1.61) 2.18 (2.20)
Quantity*** 1.66 (1.11) 1.66 (.94) 1.65 (.78) 1.63 (.92)
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Caffeine Dependent 10 (27) 19 (54) 16 (46) 16 (41)
Smoking 11 (30) 10 (29) 9 (26) 9 (23)
Female 19 (51) 18 (51) 18 (51) 19 (49)
Caucasian 23 (62) 25 (71) 22 (63) 25 (64)

Note. Frequency = number of days consumed in an average week in the past 3 months; Quantity = average number of beverages consumed per use day in an average week in the past 3 months.

*

Caffeinated beverages could include coffee, tea, soda and energy drinks; mg of caffeine consumption varies across beverage types.

**

Standard number of alcoholic drinks.

***

N = 106