AUDIT scores was slightly positively skewed (skewness = 0.963, kurtosis = 0.833). Nonetheless, skewness and kurtosis of this magnitude are still below the recommended cut-off for linear regression analysis,44 thus we have conducted all our analyses using raw AUDIT scores. Notably, however, our results did not substantially change when we repeated all analyses using a square root transformation of AUDIT resulting in a more normalized distribution (skewness = −0.307, kurtosis = −0.485; data available upon request).
