Traitedness coefficients were computed for each participant with regard to the fit of their patterns of alcohol problems to the empirically-derived alcohol trait severity continuum. Thus, high scores on traitedness indicate a pattern consistent with the characteristic progression, whereas low scores indicate a pattern inconsistent with the progression (for example, a person who has used technical products such as rubbing alcohol to achieve intoxication—the highest severity item—who had never experienced remorse about drinking, the lowest severity item) This traitedness statistic was unrelated to trait severity (r = .00), alcohol dependence (r = .03), and the alcohol typology (r = .02), but was modestly related to alcohol involvement (r = .12).
