subsequent two-year followup demonstrated significant relationships between an earlier low LR and later alcohol patterns of consumption and problems, even after controlling for baseline drinking characteristics (Schuckit et al., 2008b). Also, a SEM analysis of 688 ALSPAC offspring demonstrated both a direct relationship between LR and adverse alcohol outcomes, as well as partial mediation of this relationship through higher quantities of alcohol consumption in peers (Schuckit et al., 2008a). However, at the time those data were gathered for that SEM, ALSPAC did not use additional measures of potentially important elements of the LR-based model, such as alcohol expectancies and the use of alcohol to cope with stress, and, thus, follow-up data testing the full model are not yet available.
