The major findings presented here relate to the different ways the effects of LR on alcohol outcomes might operate in females and males when their models were evaluated separately. These results occurred despite sex invariance in the SEM that indicated males and females were similar enough to combine in a single model. The separate sex-based SEMs were consistent with the fact that zero-order correlations of LR to EXPECT and LR to COPE in Table 3 were significantly different across the sexes, and that a direct comparison of LR-based models for males and females using invariance for Figure 1 indicated the LR to EXPECT path was significantly higher in females.
