We also obtained tentative evidence that reluctance to delegate tasks and works may emerge as a middle-age AUD risk factor. However, despite much work on comorbidity of social anxiety and AUD, anxious or fearful traits were not highlighted by the present explorative analysis. Previous findings have been conflicting, suggesting differing effects across population sub-groups [58]. Thus, it may be possible to find groups of individuals that reveal links between anxious traits and AUD. On the other hand, all PDs have associations with AUD and many studies do not adjust for comorbid PD traits [1], leaving open the possibility that statistical confounding explains the findings. This study did control for possible confounding due to all correlated PD traits.
