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Published in final edited form as: Addict Behav. 1993 Nov-Dec;18(6):659–670. doi: 10.1016/0306-4603(93)90019-6

Table 4.

Mean levels of frequency of heavy drinking by motives for alcohol consumption and situational factors

	Coping motives
	Low	High
Perceived stress
Low	1.36^a (138)	1.61^a (92)
Moderate	1.46^a (153)	2.06^b (100)
High	1.33^a (133)	1.97^b (136)

	Social motives
	Low	High
Friends’ alcohol consumption
Low	1.32^a (104)	1.47^a (32)
Moderate	1.42^a (193)	1.68^b (133)
High	1.45^a (126)	2.07^c (166)

Note. Cell sample sizes are presented in parentheses. Median and tripartite splits were used to form the subgroups. Means with different superscripts have significantly different values based on the Newman-Keuls procedure (Winer, 1971), (p < .05).