The purpose of the study was to examine and compare the health behaviors of adult childrenof alcoholics (ACOAs) and their non-ACOA peers within a university population. Subjects were 945 undergraduate students from a major university in the East. Three groups (ACOA,non-ACOA, and Unsure) were identified from subjects' responses to three direct questionsregarding parental drinking behaviors. Aquestionnaire was used to collect data for thestudy.Analysis of variance procedures revealed that ACOAs had significantly lower wellness scores (WS) than non-ACOAs.

Table 1 Mean and standard deviations for the Wellness scores (WS) Group N mean S.D ACOAS 143 69.0 13.6 Non-ACOAS 746 73.2 14.5 Unsure 56 70.1 14.0 Total 945 Table 2 ANOVA of group means for the wellness score What was the purpose of stud sources d.f. SS MS F Between group 2 2403.5 How many groups were used Within group 205.1 study? Total 944 195640.8 ifi) What may have been the hyp for the ANOVA part of the study