The Great Recession and Drinking Outcomes: Protective Effects of Politically Oriented Coping
Table 2
Correlation matrix of drinking patterns, economic stressors, and coping strategies ().
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
(1) Past-month drinking
1.0000
(2) Problematic drinking
0.309***
1.0000
(3) Economy-related stressors
0.138***
0.134***
1.0000
(4) Active coping
0.044
0.062
0.419***
1.0000
(5) Support coping
0.012
0.07
0.311***
0.621***
1.0000
(6) Avoidant coping
0.115**
0.129**
0.473***
0.529***
0.501***
1.0000
(7) Politically oriented coping
−0.122**
−0.118**
0.230***
0.129**
0.115**
0.088*
1.0000
(8) Gender (1 = female)
−0.182***
−0.107*
0.026
0.062
0.146***
0.069
–0.002
1.0000
Note: *significant at 0.05; **significant at 0.01; ***significant at 0.001. The Spearman correlation coefficients are presented for gender; for all other variables, the Pearson correlation coefficients are reported.
