The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use.
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- Authors
- Salvatore, Jessica E; Thomas, Nathaniel S; Cho, Seung Bin; Adkins, Amy; Kendler, Kenneth S; Dick, Danielle M
- Year
- 2016
- Journal
- Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors
- PMID
- 27214170
- DOI
- 10.1037/adb0000145
- PMCID
- PMC4880412
Dating several people in emerging adulthood has been associated with higher alcohol use compared with being single or being in an exclusive relationship. As a follow-up to that report, we examined whether romantic relationship status is part of a pathway of risk between antecedent alcohol use risk factors and subsequent alcohol outcomes. Participants were 4,410 emerging adults assessed at 2 time-points during their first year of college. We found that a parental history of alcohol problems was indirectly related to dating several people via 2 modestly correlated pathways. The first pathway was through conduct problems. The second pathway was through positive urgency (i.e., a positive emotion-based predisposition to rash action). In turn, dating several people was associated with higher alcohol use. Our results suggest that these familial and individual-level alcohol risk factors are related to emerging adults' selection into subsequent romantic relationship experiences that are associated with higher alcohol use. These findings have implications for how romantic relationship experiences may fit into developmental models of the etiology of alcohol use. (PsycINFO Database Record
A path model depicting the associations among parental alcohol problems, romantic relationship status, and changes in alcohol use. The estimates are unstandardized coefficients. The information noted inside conduct problems, positive urgency, and dating several people boxes indicates which assessment the variables came from (baseline or follow-up) and the p-values associated with the mediation effects through those variables. Variables are mediators for multiple pathways, which are denoted by the following superscripts: aparental alcohol problems→conduct problems→dating several people; bparental alcohol problems→conduct problems→alcohol use; cparental alcohol problems→positive urgency→dating several people; dparental alcohol problems→positive urgency→ alcohol use; eparental alcohol problems→conduct problems→dating several peopled alcohol use; fparental alcohol problems→positive urgency→dating several peopled alcohol use. Sex and race were entered as covariates but are not shown. *p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01.
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| 0 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use | Exploration and experimentation in romantic relationships are important components of social… |
| 1 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use | One question that has not been addressed in this literature concerns whether and how romantic… |
| 2 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use | and perceptions of the environment) that promote or discourage a constellation of deviant behaviors… |
| 3 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use | Although romantic relationship status is not explicitly addressed in PBT, there is theoretical… |
| 4 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use | With respect to alcohol, a number of studies show that alcohol use and problems are lower for… |
| 5 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use | Parental alcohol use disorder confers environmental and genetic risk for alcohol problems in… |
| 6 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use | (i.e., sexual interactions outside of a committed relationship; Epstein, Calzo, Smiler, & Ward,… |
| 7 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use | Above and beyond these direct effects, parental alcohol use disorder or problems are also… |
| 8 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use — Deviance Proneness Pathway from Parental Alcohol Problems to Romantic Relationship Status and Alcohol Use | The deviance proneness pathway refers to one's predisposition toward impulse control problems and… |
| 9 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use — Deviance Proneness Pathway from Parental Alcohol Problems to Romantic Relationship Status and Alcohol Use | We further hypothesize that there may be an indirect effect of parental alcohol problems on alcohol… |
| 10 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use — Positive Affect Regulation Pathway from Parental Alcohol Problems to Romantic Relationship Status and Alcohol Use | The positive affect regulation pathway refers to emotionality characteristics that are associated… |
| 11 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use — Positive Affect Regulation Pathway from Parental Alcohol Problems to Romantic Relationship Status and Alcohol Use | context of positive emotions (i.e., higher levels of positive urgency). Positive urgency is a… |
| 12 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Parental Alcohol Problems, Romantic Relationship Status, and Alcohol Use — Positive Affect Regulation Pathway from Parental Alcohol Problems to Romantic Relationship Status and Alcohol Use | We hypothesize that positive urgency may also be related to emerging adults' romantic relationship… |
| 13 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Current Study and Hypotheses | We were interested in mapping the direct and indirect effects of parental alcohol problems on… |
| 14 | The role of romantic relationship status in pathways of risk for emerging adult alcohol use — Current Study and Hypotheses | In supplemental exploratory analyses, we examined whether there were sex differences in these… |
| 15 | Materials and Methods — Participants | Participants came from a large, on-going longitudinal study of the behavioral and emotional health… |
| 16 | Materials and Methods — Participants | Those who completed the baseline survey were subsequently invited via email to complete a follow-up… |
| 17 | Materials and Methods — Measures — Parental history of alcohol problems (baseline) | Participants reported whether they believed their biological mother or father ever had a drinking… |
| 18 | Materials and Methods — Measures — High school conduct problems (baseline) | Participants were asked six items about how frequently they engaged in a range of problem behaviors… |
| 19 | Materials and Methods — Measures — Positive urgency (follow-up) | Participants were asked three positive urgency items from the abbreviated positive urgency subscale… |
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