Table 4 data also address Hypothesis 4, which predicted that the correlations of SRE scores with heavier drinking and alcohol problems would be similar across generations. However, contrary to the hypothesis, correlations of the two SRE scores with drinking-related outcomes were higher for the combined offspring compared to the combined parents. Closer inspection of the table indicates that this pattern appears to apply to fathers versus sons where SRE-5 differences and SRE-T differences were both significant (z=3.72, p=.002 and z=3.80, p<.001, respectively) but not mothers versus daughters (z=0.39. p=.70 and z=0.05, p=.62 for SRE-5 and SRE-T, respectively).
