Table 1.

Bivariate correlations among model variables and covariates.

	Mean	S.D.	Age	Gender	Ethnicity	Past Year Behavioral Health Treatment	Combat Severity	PTSD Symptoms	DMQ: Coping	Perceived Stigma of Treatment Seeking	Alcohol Consequences
Age	28.87	3.42	-	.00	−.11*	.06	.23**	.05	−.03	.00	−.05
Gender	Male (80%) Female (20%)			-	.22**	.04	−.29**	.04	−.01	.08	−.09
Race/ethnicity	White (84%) Non-White (16%)				-	.01	−.03	−.01	−.02	.04	.04
Past Year Behavioral Health Treatment	Yes (43%) No (57%)					-	.19**	.43**	.25**	.02	.14*
Combat Severity	15.01	3.12					-	.32**	.20**	.19**	.16**
PTSD Symptoms	29.68	23.17						-	.64**	.19**	.26**
DMQ: Coping	2.56	1.20							-	.21**	.41**
Perceived Stigma of Treatment Seeking	2.29	1.14								-	.22**
Alcohol Consequences	5.28	6.31									-

Note: All variables were measured at T1, except for Perceived Stigma of Treatment Seeking and Alcohol Consequences which were measured at T2. Gender was coded 0 = “Male” and 1 = “Female.” Race was coded 0 = “White”, 1 = “Non-White.” Past Year Behavioral Health Treatment was coded 0 = “No treatment” and 1 = “Any treatment.” DMQ=Drinking Motives Questionnaire, PTSD=Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

^**p < .01