I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but this study probably didn't teach us much that we couldn't have simply assumed would be true. If you were

I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but this study probably didn't teach us much that we couldn't have simply assumed would be true. If you were to do a study on group of men who have a bad relationship with <fill-in-the-blank> and <drink/eat/smoke/exercise> <too much/too little>, I would bet that these men would be found, on average, to score lower on any measure of success and would have a higher incidence of every problem you looked for. This is because problems always seem to cluster, they never occur independently. It's like the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Men that argue with their mothers and drink too much are probably a group of miserable men. Why are they miserable? Maybe because they have lots of problems. I don't know if it's a real phenomenon that bad things tend to happen disproportionately to a few unlucky people, or if it's just a statistical illusion. But I am never surprised when a study finds a correlation between two negatives. It's a given.