Table 2. Pretreatment Predictors of Working Alliance Inventory Estimated From the Structural Equation Model.

	Working Alliance Inventory (Client)		Working Alliance Inventory (Therapist)
Predictors	Coefficient (95% CI)	P value	Coefficient (95% CI)	P value
Note. CI = confidence interval; CFI = confirmatory fit index; TLI = Tucker-Lewis index; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation.
a Gender coded as 1 = male 2 = female. b Employment status coded as 1 = employed 2 = unemployed. c Treatment group coded as 1 = motivational enhancement therapy, 2 = social behavior and network therapy.
* p < .05.
Age	0.64* [0.11, 1.17]	.02	−0.03 [−0.67, 0.60]	.92
Gendera	−0.45 [−2.79, 1.90]	.71	1.92 [−0.86, 4.70]	.18
Marital status	−1.45 [−3.63, 0.72]	.19	−0.88 [−3.34, 1.58]	.48
Parenthood	0.73 [−1.61, 3.06]	.54	1.47 [−1.34, 4.27]	.31
Education	−0.72 [−2.05, 0.61]	.29	0.77 [−0.91, 2.45]	.37
Employment Statusb	−1.43 [−3.83, 0.97]	.24	−2.21 [−4.58, 0.16]	.07
Percentage days abstinent pretreatment	0.01 [−0.03, 0.05]	.62	−0.03 [−0.08, 0.02]	.21
Drinks per drinking day pretreatment	0.05 [−0.04, 0.14]	.26	0.02 [−0.10, 0.14]	.79
Leeds dependence score	0.02 [−0.14, 0.19]	.78	−0.02 [−0.19, 0.16]	.86
Action vs. preaction pretreatment	2.21* [0.36, 4.06]	.02	0.85 [−1.63, 3.34]	.50
Treatment groupc	−1.80 [−3.90, 0.30]	.09	−0.55 [−3.15, 2.06]	.68
Model fit
CFI	0.978		0.973
TLI	0.842		0.809
RMSEA	0.039		0.040