In the current study, we investigated the influence of FH of AUD, operationalized as FHD, on the associations between trauma type (nonsexual assaultive, nonassaultive, and sexual assaultive), and PTSD/alcohol dependence symptom counts, as well as planning and problem‐solving aspects of executive functioning using an integrated model in trauma‐exposed individuals from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) prospective cohort (N = 1,860). Secondary analyses included sex‐stratified models. We hypothesized that FHD would moderate these associations depending on the trauma type, such that as FHD increases individuals with high impact traumatic exposures (i.e., sexual assaultive trauma) will have more PTSD symptoms, and that this will also vary by sex since women are more likely to experience sexual assaultive trauma than men.
