Chunk #23 — 3. Results — 3.2. Relation between AA, network support/activities, and alcohol use over time — 3.2.3. Relationship between network support/activities and alcohol use outcomes
With the exception of drinking activities among outpatients in predicting DDD (p=.06), when examined as individual predictors, both pro-abstinent and pro-drinking social ties and abstinent and drinking activities were significantly associated with PDA and DDD in the expected directions (ps<.006). However, when these mediators were combined in one model to predict drinking outcomes abstinent and drinking activities were no longer significant (see table 3). For both outpatient and aftercare participants, pro-abstinent network ties were significantly positively associated, and pro-drinking network ties were significantly negatively associated, with PDA. For DDD, only pro-drinking social networks met our criterion for statistical significance (i.e., <.01; see Table 3) among outpatient and aftercare participants. For significant covariates, younger age (b = -.0048, p < .001) and greater prior treatment episodes (b = -.0312, p < .01) were associated with lower PDA among outpatient participants. For DDD, prior treatment was positively associated with drinking intensity in both outpatient and aftercare samples (b = .1110, p < .005, b = .1900, p < .001).
