Reasons Not to Drink Alcohol among 9th Graders in Sweden

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Table 1. Prevalence (%) of reasons not to drink, entire sample and among drinkers and nondrinkers.

	All (n = 4501)	Drinkers (n = 1823)	Nondrinkers (n = 2678)	Odds Ratio *	95% Confidence intervals
1. Drinking is bad for your health	89.3%	82.5%	94.0%	1.675	1.331	2.109
2. Drinking costs too much	83.3%	80.7%	84.9%	0.805	0.667	0.971
3. I have religious reasons for not drinking	12.6%	4.8%	17.7%	2.775	2.146	3.587
4. People who drink lose control in an unpleasant way	60.9%	41.7%	73.9%	2.460	2.123	2.849
5. My parents disapprove of me drinking	90.2%	87.9%	91.8%	0.834	0.662	1.052
6. Drinking makes you put on weight	62.4%	60.7%	63.6%	0.734	0.634	0.849
7. Drinking has destroyed somebody that I know well	29.4%	31.2%	28.2%	0.549	0.471	0.640
8. Alcohol tastes horrible	59.6%	39.6%	73.1%	2.995	2.603	3.446
9. Some of the effects, eg. hangovers, dizziness and vomiting, are awful	83.2%	75.8%	88.4%	1.319	1.092	1.595
10. Drinking is too likely to lead to serious accidents	77.9%	62.7%	88.0%	2.458	2.059	2.934

*Odds ratios are derived from a multivariable logistic regression model. Values > 1.0 indicate that nondrinkers endorse the item more than drinkers and values < 1.0 indicate that drinkers endorse the item more often than nondrinkers, with adjustment for all other items.

Table 2. Correlation matrix with all the items measuring reasons not to drink, entire sample n = 4501.

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.
1. Drinking is bad for your health	1.000	0.180	0.078	0.198	0.135	0.110	0.035	0.198	0.174	0.234
2. Drinking costs too much		1.000	0.026	0.141	0.043	0.151	0.053	0.136	0.113	0.166
3. I have religious reasons for not drinking			1.000	0.217	0.083	0.071	0.181	0.154	0.071	0.149
4. People who drink lose control in an unpleasant way				1.000	0.130	0.153	0.120	0.257	0.210	0.365
5. My parents disapprove of me drinking					1.000	0.087	0.047	0.127	0.111	0.129
6. Drinking makes you put on weight						1.000	0.095	0.109	0.176	0.181
7. Drinking has destroyed somebody that I know well							1.000	0.065	0.075	0.114
8. Alcohol tastes horrible								1.000	0.183	0.246
9. Some of the effects, eg. hangovers, dizziness and vomiting, are awful									1.000	0.297
10. Drinking is too likely to lead to serious accidents										1.000

Bold text indicates significant correlation (p < 0.01).