The Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE; Schuckit, Smith, & Tipp, 1997a) is a 12-item questionnaire that asks how many standard drinks it took to reach each of four outcomes during three different periods in one’s life. The four questions ask how many drinks it took to: 1) begin to feel different; 2) feel a bit dizzy or to begin to slur speech; 3) begin stumbling or walking in an uncoordinated manner; and 4) pass out or fall asleep when not wanting to. The SRE score is typically calculated as the sum of the total number of drinks divided by the number of endorsed outcomes. Recent work indicates that this method may downwardly bias SRE scores for participants with more unendorsed outcomes, however (Lee, Bartholow, McCarthy, Pedersen, & Sher, 2015). Therefore, we used the standardized person-mean imputation method suggested by Lee et al. (2015), in which items are converted to z-scores before averaging. A higher score is indicative of a low level of response to alcohol (i.e., more drinks are required to feel the effects). The SRE is administered
