ssor vulnerability model of drinking. Specifically, the Cooper et al. (1992) study was limited to the investigation of gender, coping, and expectancies in stress-related drinking. Given that Family history of alcoholism (FH) has been shown to play a significant role in drinking (i.e., Cotton, 1979; Goodwin, 1988; Hill, Nord, & Blow 1992; Ohannessian & Hesselbrock, 1993), it is appealing to investigate the role of FH as an additional vulnerability factor [as suggested by Cooper et al. (1992)]. Moreover, the Cooper et al. (1992) study conceptualizes gender, coping, and expectancies as moderators of stress-related drinking. Given that expectancies directly predict alcohol consumption (as discussed previously), a modified interactional model is proposed such that gender, coping, and family history play an indirect moderational role in predicting stress-related drinking; whereas expectancies play a direct mediational role as conceptualized by Figure 1 below. MethodSubjectsAll subjects in this study were undergraduate psychology students from a large Canadian university. The initial sample consisted of 84 volunteers. For the purpose of this study, only those subjects who drank at least once a weak were included. A total of 65 out of 84 subjects (77.4%), aged 19 years and over, successfully met this criterion. The sample consisted of a roughly equal number of 31males (47.7%) and 34 females (52.3%), who were predominantly Caucasian (64.6%). More than three-quarters (75.4%) of the subjects were in their first year of studies, and were mostly employed part-time (60.0%). Nearly three-quarters (72.3%) of those who were employed received an annual income smaller than $ 10,000. The mean age at which subjects first consumed alcohol was 14.7, whereas the mean age at which they began to drink regularly was 17.9. Subjects total weekly consumption of alcohol averaged 11.1 drinks.MeasuresMeasures used in the present study were embedded in a general assess...
