A primary path analysis was performed using Mplus (Muthén & Muthén, 1998–2017) to investigate main and interaction effects of FHD and three types of trauma (nonsexual assaultive, nonassaultive and sexual assaultive trauma) for DSM‐IV PTSD symptom counts, alcohol dependence symptom counts, and TOLT performance measures (average trial time and excess moves made. Since it is possible that an individual may have multiple types of trauma exposure, all trauma variables were modeled simultaneously. All dependent variables were also modeled simultaneously to account for possible shared liability among PTSD and AD symptom counts and TOLT performance measures (Figure 1). All statistical models were adjusted for familial clustering, sex, self‐reported race/ethnicity, age, income, and educational attainment (i.e., highest grade completed), as each of these variables has been previously shown to influence risk for PTSD and alcohol dependence (Powers, Etkin, Gyurak, Bradley, & Jovanovic, 2015; Tripp, McDevitt‐Murphy, Avery, & Bracken, 2015). Since subjects improve in behavioral tasks over time, and not all individuals have participated in the same number of sessions, number of sessions for each individual was used as a covariate on the
