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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jan 14;208:107771. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107771

Table 3.

Demographic Information: Healthy Control (HC) versus Early Cannabis Onset versus Late Cannabis Onset.

Demographic Variables HC
n = 16
Early Onset
n = 14
Late Onset
n = 14
ANOVA (2-tailed)a
F p (ηp2)
 Sex 6M, 10F 13 M, 1F 10 M, 4F
 Handedness 16R, 0L 13R, 1L 14R, 0L
 Age 22.94 ± 3.96 23.14 ± 7.07 22.79 ± 3.77 0.02 .98 (< .01)
 IQ: WASIb 123.55 ± 6.85 116.00 ± 12.99 119.43 ± 6.11 2.01 .15 (.10)
 Alcohol Use (days out of last 30)b 4.97 ± 4.50 5.82 ± 2.31 7.21 ± 5.94 0.81 .45 (.04)

Cannabis Use Variables

 Age of Cannabis Onsetc 14.00 ± 1.04 17.36 ± 1.08 70.21 < .01 (.73)
 Cannabis Use Episodes/Weekc 11.88 ± 4.56 17.65 ± 16.66 1.56 .22 (.06)
 Cannabis Grams Used/Weekc 4.43 ± 2.66 6.05 ± 8.77 0.44 .51 (.02)
 Duration of Cannabis Use (yr)c 9.57 ± 7.98 5.29 ± 3.58 3.36 .08 (.12)
 Urinary THC/Creatinine Ratiod 408.43 ± 594.23 564.75 ± 754.35 0.35 .56 (.01)
 CUDIT-R Scorec 15.14 ± 4.59 16.00 ± 6.08 0.18 .68 (.01)
 MWC (16-item)c 7.71 ± 4.14 6.93 ± 3.25 0.31 .58 (.01)

Impulsiveness: BIS

 Attentione 13.00 ± 3.58 * , * 16.79 ± 3.17 * 16.50 ± 3.18 * 4.87 .01 (.21)
 Motore 20.73 ± 4.92 23.00 ± 4.49 23.29 ± 3.79 1.22 .31 (.06)
 Non-Planninge 18.46 ± 5.17 * , ** 26.36 ± 4.27 * 23.21 ± 5.37 ** 7.91 < .01 (.31)
 Totale 52.18 ± 12.85 * , * 66.14 ± 7.83 * 63.00 ± 10.50 * 5.94 .01 (.25)

Abbreviations: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS); Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test-Revised (CUDIT-R); Marijuana Withdrawal Checklist (MWC); Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI).

Notes:

Bold numbers are significant at p ≤ .05 (2-tailed).

Italicized numbers are significant at p ≤ .10 (2-tailed).

*

Scheffé Post Hoc Analyses indicated significant differences between pairs at p ≤ .10 (2-tailed).

**

Scheffé Post Hoc Analyses indicated significant differences between pairs at p ≤ .05 (2-tailed).

a

Degrees of Freedom (df) = 2,41 unless otherwise noted.

b

df = 2,35.

c

df = 1,26.

d

df = 1,24.

e

df = 2,36.