Skip to main content

Table 3 Characteristics associated with symptoms of alcohol use disorders

From: Drinking to ease the burden: a cross-sectional study on trauma, alcohol abuse and psychopathology in a post-conflict context

 

Alcohol-related symptoms (AUDIT)

Predictor

β

r

Age

.00

−.05

Currently in a relationship

.07

.05a

Completed primary education

−.07

−.05a

Abduction

.01

.09a

Family Violence event-types physical abuse

.04

.24***

Family Violence event-types emotional abuse

.21*

.26***

Family Violence event-types sexual abuse

.04

.02b

Family Violence event-types witnessed

.01

.13b

Traumatic event-types experienced

.18*

.23***

Traumatic event-types witnessed

−.09

.15*

Event-types with forced perpetration

.06

.10b

  1. Full model’s adjusted R 2 = .10; F (17, 188) = 2.36, p < .0027. Location was controlled for entering the model as fixed nominal factor, results are not displayed in the table for reasons of clarity and readability; the location Agweno was significantly associated with the level of alcohol-related symptoms (β = .22*). aZero-order correlations are represented by point-biserial correlations for dichotomous predictor variables. bZero-order correlations are represented by Spearman’s ρ. Symbols indicate significance: *p < .05. ***p < .001