Table 1.
No/Low Drinker (N=692) | Male vs. Female | Exceeded-Threshold (N=139) | Male vs. Female | No/low vs. Exceeds | |||||||
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Male | Female | t or χ2 | p | Male | Female | t or χ2 | p | t or χ2 | p | ||
N | 344 | 348 | 64 | 75 | |||||||
Age (years) | mean | 15.6 | 15.8 | −0.850 | 0.3954 | 18.4 | 18.5 | −0.305 | 0.7609 | −14.841 | 0.0000 |
standard deviation | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | |||||||
N | 344 | 348 | 64 | 75 | |||||||
Education (years) | mean | 8.9 | 9.2 | −1.155 | 0.2486 | 11.7 | 11.9 | −0.440 | 0.6607 | −14.524 | 0.0000 |
standard deviation | 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 2.0 | |||||||
N | 342 | 346 | 64 | 74 | |||||||
Pubertal Development Scale | mean | 2.9 | 3.4 | −10.917 | 0.0000 | 3.5 | 3.8 | −5.635 | 0.0000 | −11.553 | 0.0000 |
median | 3.0 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | |||||||
standard deviation | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||||
N | 339 | 345 | 62 | 73 | |||||||
Socioeconomic status | mean | 17.0 | 16.6 | 2.057 | 0.0401 | 17.1 | 17.3 | −0.400 | 0.6902 | −1.743 | 0.0832 |
standard deviation | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | |||||||
N | 326 | 326 | 54 | 58 | |||||||
Handedness | L/R/A | 33/261/49 | 23/290/35 | 5.936 | 0.0514 | 2/53/9 | 7/61/7 | 2.736 | 0.2546 | 0.527 | 0.7685 |
N | 343 | 348 | 64 | 75 | |||||||
Family History of Alcoholism | |||||||||||
negative/positive | 318/26 | 316/32 | 0.410 | 0.5222 | 50/14 | 63/12 | 0.445 | 0.5047 | 12.464 | 0.0004 | |
Self-declared Ethnicity | N | 344 | 348 | 8.997 | 0.1092 | 64 | 75 | 3.279 | 0.3505 | 5.215 | 0.3902 |
Caucasian | 251 | 235 | 52 | 57 | |||||||
African-American | 34 | 53 | 3 | 9 | |||||||
Asian | 27 | 25 | 6 | 4 | |||||||
Pacific Islander | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
American Indian | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mixed | 28 | 32 | 3 | 5 |
N=number
L/R/A=left/right/ambidextrous