As documented above, personality relates to AUDs through a variety of ways that most likely overlap. Further, individual differences in normative personality change have recently been linked to the developmental course of alcohol problems. Thus, a potentially profitable line of research includes examining common factors of personality, alcohol use and misuse, and likely mediators of the personality-alcohol relation (e.g., drinking motives) from an integrative, developmental framework. As noted above, there is substantial genetic covariation between the broad construct of behavioral undercontrol and AUDs (Slutske et al., 2002). Though results have been inconsistent (suggesting possible environmental/developmental interactions; South & Krueger, 2008), several potential genetic factors of personality have also been identified and reviewed (see Ebstein, 2006; Ebstein & Israel, 2009), including genotypes related to the functioning of dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitters thought to be relevant to variation in alcohol involvement (see Ducci & Goldman, 2008; Goldman et al., 2005; van der Zwaluw & Engels, 2009). Initial evidence suggests that motives for alcohol use may also be linked to similar genetic factors. Drinking motives involving coping with negative moods appear to be,
