Drinking Motives, Alcohol Misuse, and Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology across College
A Cross-Lagged Panel Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21646752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne E Savage (0000-0002-2034-8341, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, corresponding author), Danielle M Dick (0000-0002-1636-893X, Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1377-1387 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Substance Use & Misuse (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1082-6084 • E-ISSN: 1532-2491 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10826084.2023.2223269 |
| PMID | 37339914 |
| OpenAlex | W4381325617 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 47 |
Background: Drinking motives are strong proximal predictors of alcohol use behaviors and may represent a mediational mechanism by which different individual predispositions toward internalizing or externalizing psychopathology lead to the development of alcohol misuse. However, whether the association is due to a causal relationship or a shared etiology (i.e., confounding) is difficult to determine and may change across developmental periods. Methods: This study leveraged a cross-lagged panel design to disentangle the nature of the relationships between self-report measures of drinking motives, alcohol misuse, and internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in a 4-year longitudinal sample of college students (N = 9,889). Results: Results pointed to a putative causal effect of drinking motives on early binge drinking frequency, but the direction of effect later reversed, reflecting a possible developmental shift during college. On the other hand, the relationships between drinking motives and internalizing/externalizing psychopathology appeared to be driven by shared etiology rather than direct causal mechanisms. Conclusions: These findings highlight the distinct and important role of drinking motives in the etiology of alcohol misuse and have implications for the application of tailored prevention and treatment strategies
Binge drinking · Confounding · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Etiology · Injury prevention · Longitudinal study · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Structural equation modeling · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
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| Highly cited | No |