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The article discusses self-role strain and drinking disposition at a prealcoholic age level. This article discusses two questions emerging from earlier studies and from an examination of later research: whether indications of deviant sex disposition and self-role strain found among adult male alcoholics will be shown by heavy or excessive drinkers at a prealcoholic age level, and whether alcoholics and heavy drinkers at a prealcoholic age level will show a similar pattern of familial correlates of sex and drinking dispositions. Major findings are presented by drinker categories which approximately represent abstainers and moderate drinkers, heavy drinkers, and quasi-alcoholics. One of the hypotheses tested whether the frequency of broken homes varies positively with the degree of incongruent sexuality and strength of the alcohol disposition. One of the hypotheses tested is whether the frequency of broken homes varies positively with the degree of incongruent sexuality and strength of the alcohol disposition. Another hypothesis is whether the femininity of sibships (proportion of sisters) varies positively with the degree of incongruent sexuality and strength of the alcohol disposition.