Hypothesis 3 stated that SRE-3, relating to the most recent LR to alcohol, will have higher correlations with drinking variables than other SRE scores. This prediction was supported for male probands regarding the higher zero-order correlations for SRE-3 compared with other SRE scores in Table 1, the correlations that included covariates in the analysis correlations in Table 5, and the series of regression analyses in Table 6. Hypothesis 3 was not as consistently supported for offspring in Table 2 or in Table 5 cross-sectional analyses, but SRE-3 performed better than other scores in Table 5 prospective analyses and in Step 2 of Table 6. Those offspring results might also have been impacted by the.81 correlation between SRE-3 and SRE-H noted in Table 2. Overall, these results are consistent with the conclusion that if an investigator or a clinician only can use only 1 SRE measure, they might have the greatest impact from SRE-3, especially for older individuals.
