Drinking Motives, Alcohol Misuse, and Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology across College: A Cross-Lagged Panel Study. Savage, J. E., Spit for Science Working Group, & Dick, D. M. Substance Use & Misuse, 58(11):1377–1387, 2023.
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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.
@article{savage_drinking_2023,
	title = {Drinking {Motives}, {Alcohol} {Misuse}, and {Internalizing} and {Externalizing} {Psychopathology} across {College}: {A} {Cross}-{Lagged} {Panel} {Study}},
	volume = {58},
	issn = {1532-2491},
	shorttitle = {Drinking {Motives}, {Alcohol} {Misuse}, and {Internalizing} and {Externalizing} {Psychopathology} across {College}},
	doi = {10.1080/10826084.2023.2223269},
	abstract = {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.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {11},
	journal = {Substance Use \& Misuse},
	author = {Savage, Jeanne E. and {Spit for Science Working Group} and Dick, Danielle M.},
	year = {2023},
	keywords = {Adaptation, Psychological, Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Drinking in College, Alcoholism, Drinking motives, Humans, Motivation, Universities, college students, cross-lagged, longitudinal},
	pages = {1377--1387},
}

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