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Table 2 Reasons why young people first tried alcohol consumption by cyclothymia and hyperthymia

From: Alcohol consumption and accentuated personality traits among young adults in Romania: a cross-sectional study

Personality traits

The reasons for which young people tried first AC

To be as peers

Boredom

Curiosity

Adult influence

Cyclothymiaa

Normal

28.0

21.5

17.8

29.5

Accentuation

40.7

32.3

41.9

34.1

Strong accentuation

26.4

43.1

35.4

33.0

Significant accentuation

4.9

3.1

5.0

3.4

Hyperthymiab

Normal

16.5

18.5

9.5

9.1

Accentuation

32.1

29.2

26.9

36.4

Strong accentuation

40.7

35.4

54.4

46.6

Significant accentuation

10.7

16.9

9.1

8.0

  1. aPearson’s chi-square test = 22.921, p < 0.01, bPearson’s chi-square test = 30.467, p < 0.001; all df = 9