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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2021 Apr 1;36(1):44–53. doi: 10.1037/adb0000698

Table 2.

Relationship status and stress, drinking motivation and heavy drinking

Married/
Cohabitating 		Non-cohab.
Relationship 		Not in
Relationship
M SD M SD M SD F p r 2
Relationship Chronic stress 1.87a 0.49 2.18b 0.60 2.30c 0.70 35.22 <.001 .073
Advances in relationships 1.25a 0.32 1.01b 0.09 1.00b 0.00 170.36 <.001 .276
Major arguments 1.05a 0.21 1.06a 0.21 1.01b 0.08 7.48 .001 .016
Starting new relationships 1.01a 0.11 1.11b 0.22 1.02a 0.11 32.33 <.001 .067
Relationship dissolution 1.03a 0.20 1.12b 0.36 1.31c 0.50 40.37 <.001 .083
DTC motivation college 0.18 0.24 0.22 0.29 0.23 0.31 2.06 .128 .005
DTC motivation post-college 0.08a 0.14 0.09a 0.15 0.13b 0.20 7.13 .001 .016
Enhancement motivation college 1.21 0.48 1.24 0.49 1.25 0.51 0.40 .672 .001
Enhancement motivation post-college 0.78a 0.47 0.85a,b 0.48 0.89b 0.48 4.10 .017 .009
Heavy drinking college 0.16 0.12 0.16 0.12 0.17 0.12 0.82 .440 .002
Heavy drinking post-college 0.13 0.14 0.13 0.12 0.15 0.12 2.78 .062 .006

Note. F-values df = 2, 895. Means with different superscripts are significantly different at the .05 alpha level based on Tukey-Kramer follow up tests.