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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: Field methods. 2011 Aug 25;23(4):439–460. doi: 10.1177/1525822X11418176

Table 4.

What are some other things that are addictive?

Responses AU
N (%)
US
N (%)
UY
N (%)
MX
N (%)
MY
N (%)
TH
N (%)
Overall
N (%)
Fisher’s Test
Alcohol 15 (75%) 16 (84%) 12 (63%) 11 (73%) 1 (7%) 4 (22%) 59 (56%) 0.000
Drugs 15 (75%) 15 (79%) 14 (74%) 11 (73%) 2 (14%) 15 (83%) 72 (68%) 0.000
Pleasurable foods 4 (20%) 8 (42%) 6 (32%) 3 (20%) 2 (14%) 0 (0%) 23 (22%) 0.015
Sex 2 (10%) 3 (16%) 0 (0%) 4 (27%) 1 (7%) 0 (0%) 10 (10%) 0.120
Gambling 3 (15%) 1 (5%) 2 (11%) 1 (7%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 7 (7%) 0.417
Other 3 (15%) 9 (47%) 4 (21%) 2 (13%) 8 (57%) 1 (6%) 27 (26%) 0.010

Note: n=20 in each country