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{"title":"Motives for alcohol use across the 24 hours prior to a suicide attempt.","authors":"Katie P Himes, Andrew K Littlefield, Kenneth R Conner, Courtney L Bagge","doi":"10.1037/adb0001033","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Acute alcohol use is a risk factor for suicidal behavior. This study examined sources of variance (between-person, within-person) in hour-to-hour self-reported alcohol consumption and drinking motives and assessed the interrelations of different motives for alcohol use across the 24 hr preceding a suicide attempt.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This multisite study utilized interview data obtained retrospectively from adult patients hospitalized following a suicide attempt. The current analysis examined participants (<i>n</i> = 110) who reported using alcohol within 24 hr of the attempt (<i>M</i>_age = 39.59; 48.2% female, 72.7% White; 4.5% Hispanic/Latinx). Participants reported suicide-facilitative drinking motives using three items from the Suicide Facilitative Drinking Motives Scale and reported typical, nonfacilitative motives using three items from the Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised. Data were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most variance in reported drinking motives occurred between participants, though there was substantial within-person variability. Within-person increases in alcohol use were associated with suicide-facilitative motives for alcohol use, but not nonfacilitative motives. Social and enhancement motives were consistently negatively associated with facilitative motives, while coping motives were positively associated with reported drinking to reduce fear regarding suicide.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest the assessment of motives for alcohol use in at-risk patients may provide key clinical targets (i.e., the function of drinking) for preventing suicidal behavior. When alcohol is consumed for coping motives or used to facilitate suicidal behavior, it is particularly concerning and warrants clinical intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"85-94"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interpersonal factors associated with suicide ideation among gamblers.","authors":"Heather M Gray, Timothy C Edson","doi":"10.1037/adb0001058","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Objective:</i> Recent meta-analyses have confirmed an appreciable relationship between problem gambling and suicidality. We explored the potential mechanisms underlying this relationship by testing the applicability of the interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005) to problem gambling. This theory proposes, in part, that feelings of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness increase one's risk for suicidal desire, typically operationalized as suicide ideation. <b><i>Method:</i></b> Using mediation and moderated mediation analyses, we examined whether perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness help explain the relationship between problem gambling and suicidal ideation among 598 crowdsourced survey workers with past-year gambling experience. We also explored the roles of debt stress, household breadwinner status, and gambling in isolation in these relationships. Finally, we explored the idiosyncrasy of the interpersonal theory of suicide to problematic gambling by replicating some of our analyses substituting a measure of heavy drinking for problem gambling. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Controlling for depression severity, perceived burdensomeness mediated the effects of problem gambling on suicide ideation, especially when combined with thwarted belongingness. Debt stress mediated the relationship between problem gambling and perceived burdensomeness regardless of breadwinner status. Problem gambling predicted thwarted belongingness, but contrary to predictions, this relationship was not especially strong among people who tend to gamble in isolation. Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness did not play a mediational role in the relationship between heavy drinking and suicidal ideation. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> Findings support the utility of the interpersonal theory of suicide in regard to suicide ideation in problem gambling and highlight the need for family involvement in problem gambling treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":"39 1","pages":"95-111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alcohol use prior to episodes of nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder participating in a randomized clinical trial of dialectical behavior therapy.","authors":"Melissa Nance, Chelsey Wilks, Ryan W Carpenter","doi":"10.1037/adb0001016","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Alcohol use is an important, but understudied, risk factor for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), defined as deliberate physical harm to oneself without intent to die. Alcohol use may facilitate engagement in NSSI by increasing impulsivity and physical pain tolerance. Limited data also suggest that people engage in more medically severe NSSI under the influence of alcohol.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This secondary analysis study examined the use of alcohol prior to NSSI in a sample of 79 female patients with borderline personality disorder who were enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of dialectical behavior therapy. We used multilevel modeling (MLM) to examine preregistered hypotheses that alcohol use prior to NSSI would be related to the impulsivity of NSSI, physical pain experienced during NSSI, and the medical severity of injuries from NSSI.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants endorsed alcohol use prior to 21.96% (47/221) of NSSI episodes, and roughly one third of participants (<i>n</i> = 27) reported at least one episode of NSSI preceded by alcohol use. For NSSI episodes preceded by alcohol use, more than half (52.38%) of participants reported using alcohol up to the moment of initiating NSSI. Alcohol use was significantly associated with higher impulsivity of NSSI episodes (<i>b</i> = 1.16, <i>p</i> = .041), but not physical pain from NSSI or medical severity of NSSI.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings need to be replicated but indicate that alcohol use occurs frequently prior to NSSI and could be a target for reducing impulsive episodes of NSSI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"76-84"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659508/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141427969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genetic risk for trait aggression and alcohol use predict unique facets of alcohol-related aggression.","authors":"Kellyn M Spychala, Ellen W Yeung, Alex P Miller, Wendy S Slutske, Action Consortium, Kirk C Wilhelmsen, Ian R Gizer","doi":"10.1037/adb0001015","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>A propensity for aggression or alcohol use may be associated with alcohol-related aggression. Previous research has shown genetic overlap between alcohol use and aggression but has not looked at how alcohol-related aggression may be uniquely influenced by genetic risk for aggression or alcohol use. The present study examined the associations of genetic risk for trait aggression, alcohol use, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) with alcohol-related aggression using a polygenic risk score (PRS) approach.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using genome-wide association study summary statistics, PRSs were created for trait aggression, alcohol consumption, and AUD. These PRSs were used to predict the phenotype of alcohol-related aggression among drinkers in two independent samples: the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Family Alcoholism Study (<i>n</i> = 1,162) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; <i>n</i> = 4,291).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were significant associations between the AUD PRS and lifetime alcohol-related aggression in the UCSF study sample. Additionally, the trait aggression PRS was associated with three or more experiences of hitting anyone else and getting into physical fights while under the influence of alcohol, along with a composite score of three or more experiences of alcohol-related aggression, in the UCSF study sample. No significant associations were observed in the Add Health sample. Limited sex-specific genetic effects were observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results provide preliminary evidence that genetic influences underlying alcohol use and aggression are uniquely associated with alcohol-related aggression and suggest that these associations may differ by type and frequency of alcohol-related aggression incidents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"63-75"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11621227/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing and piloting a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial for opioid prevention among youth in the legal system.","authors":"Kym R Ahrens, Ahnalee M Brincks, Kevin P Haggerty, Cari A McCarty, Shemonta Dean, Katie M Albertson, Stephanie R Cross, Ted Ryle, Alicia Wun","doi":"10.1037/adb0001025","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Youth in the legal system are vulnerable to initiation and escalation of opioid use. The transition period during which a young person is released from the institutional setting to the community is a critical window of opportunity for preventive intervention targeting the uptake and intensification of opioid and other drug use. Adaptive preventive interventions are a promising approach to systematically varying the timing and intensity of substance use preventive interventions for these youth.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This pilot study of 30 youth (97% young men; 37% White; <i>M</i>_age = 18.34, <i>SD</i> = 1.84) examined the feasibility and acceptability of adaptive and nonadaptive preventive interventions that incorporate components of the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach with Assertive Continuing Care, Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Treatment, and Motivational Interviewing using the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial study design. Participants completed assessments at baseline, 1-month postrelease, and 2-months postrelease.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Enrollment rate was 65%. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of enrolled youth had substance use disorder at intake. Moreover, 60% of enrolled participants completed the 2-month postrelease follow-up assessment. Participants reported high satisfaction with the interventionist interactions, and 95% indicated they would recommend the program to other youth. The pilot study revealed the need for several adaptations to study and intervention protocols.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This pilot study provides evidence of the feasibility of a research-practice partnership with state juvenile rehabilitation facilities, successful recruitment of youth involved in the legal system, and feasibility and acceptability of adaptive preventive interventions spanning pre- and post-release for legal system-involved youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"14-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of perceived parent drinking motives on alcohol use among adolescents with and without childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.","authors":"Samantha M Margherio, Sarah L Pedersen, Frances L Wang, Traci M Kennedy, Christine A P Walther, Elizabeth M Gnagy, William E Pelham, Brooke S G Molina","doi":"10.1037/adb0000991","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0000991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Parent history of alcohol-related problems and antisocial behaviors contribute to adolescent alcohol use and are associated with offspring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Youth with ADHD may be susceptible to intergenerational transmission of alcohol-related cognitions, which may model drinking motives that enhance risk for adolescent alcohol use. We examined whether childhood ADHD and parent history of alcohol use disorder, with or without antisociality, were associated with adolescents' perceptions of their parents' drinking motives and whether these perceptions predicted their alcohol use behaviors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 199; 56% with ADHD; <i>M</i>_age = 15.73) completed the Drinking Motives Questionnaire regarding perceptions of their parents' drinking motives. Participants subsequently reported their past-year alcohol use behaviors (<i>M</i>_age = 16.95). Parents reported their history of alcohol-related problems and antisocial symptoms. Covariates included adolescent gender (7% girls), race (9% self-identified Black), and parental education and marital status.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived parent drinking motives were highest for social and lowest for conformity motives, consistent with adult self-reports in the literature. Parent alcohol use and antisociality history predicted perceptions of parent drinking motives, and child ADHD only predicted perceptions of parent social drinking motives. Perceived parent drinking motives predicted adolescent alcohol use, but only among youth without ADHD.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings reflect the potential importance of assessing adolescent perceptions of parent drinking motives for adolescents without ADHD and a possible need for supporting parents in communicating about their own alcohol use. Future research should consider alternative strategies (e.g., assessing implicit cognitions) for studying the link between alcohol-related cognitions and behaviors for adolescents with ADHD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":"38-51"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11291706/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139651902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating the Confluence Model and I³ Model to predict sexual assault perpetration intentions.","authors":"Mitchell Kirwan, Olivia Westemeier, Julia F Hammett, Cynthia A Stappenbeck, Kelly Cue Davis","doi":"10.1037/adb0001059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Sexual assault perpetration is widespread among young men. According to the Confluence Model, hostile masculinity and impersonal sex are trait-level factors associated with sexual assault perpetration likelihood. Additionally, state-level factors, including alcohol intoxication, current emotions, and ability to modulate one's emotions, have been tied to sexual assault perpetration via the I3 Model. This study integrates these trait- and state-level factors into a single model to enhance its predictive power and better inform future interventions.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were collected from 2019 to 2023. Young, single, nonproblem drinking men, who had been sexually active with a woman within the past month (<i>N</i> = 282; 34.8% people of color), completed background questionnaires and were randomly assigned to a positive or negative mood induction, and then to consume alcohol (target peak breath alcohol concentration = .08%) or a control beverage before projecting themselves into a hypothetical, sexual scenario. Then, men indicated their likelihood of engaging in nonconsensual sexual activity with their hypothetical partner (i.e., perpetration likelihood).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A moderated-mediation structural equation model demonstrated that trait hostile masculinity and impersonal sex interacted with state alcohol intoxication and mood to predict state sexual arousal. State sexual arousal subsequently interacted with state impulsivity to predict state difficulties modulating emotions, which predicted perpetration likelihood during the hypothetical scenario.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Integrating trait- and state-level factors is of paramount importance to understanding sexual assault prevention. Interventions targeting emotional modulation during sexual situations may be especially useful among aroused or impulsive individuals, due to their mood, alcohol intoxication, and attitudes regarding hostile masculinity and impersonal sex. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protective behavioral strategies and alcohol consequences following a group-based motivational intervention for young adults experiencing homelessness.","authors":"Graham DiGuiseppi, Eric R Pedersen, Megan E Brown, Anthony Rodriguez, Rupa Jose, David J Klein, Elizabeth J D'Amico, Joan S Tucker","doi":"10.1037/adb0001047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Young adults experiencing homelessness are at high risk for alcohol-related consequences, but protective behavioral strategies (PBS) have not been investigated as a harm reduction approach in this population. This study examines longitudinal associations between PBS and alcohol-related consequences following a group-based alcohol intervention.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data come from AWARE, a randomized controlled trial of a group-based motivational intervention to reduce substance use and risky sex compared to usual care. Participants include 276 young adults experiencing homelessness (<i>M</i>_age = 22.08, 30% female, 84% non-White) receiving drop-in center services in Los Angeles County, California. Surveys were conducted at baseline and 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-month follow-up. Bivariate latent change score models examined cross-lagged associations between PBS and alcohol consequences for participants who drank at least once over the course of the study, controlling for demographics and intervention condition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PBS were associated with significant wave-to-wave reductions in alcohol consequences (δ range = -2.53 to -11.22), and alcohol consequences were associated with significant reductions in PBS usage between the 3- and 6-month follow-ups (δ = -0.02, <i>p</i> = .01) and between the 12- and 24-month follow-ups (δ = -0.08, <i>p</i> = .004). In addition, the AWARE intervention was associated with increased PBS usage between the 3- and 6-month follow-ups (δ = 0.30, <i>p</i> = .02).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Among young adults experiencing homelessness, greater use of PBS is associated with significant reductions in alcohol consequences over time. Furthermore, PBS may increase following a group-based motivational intervention. PBS are a promising harm reduction strategy for this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Common and uncommon risky drinking patterns in young adulthood uncovered by person-specific computational modeling.","authors":"Whitney R Ringwald, Kasey G Creswell, Carissa A Low, Afsaneh Doryab, Tammy Chung, Junier B Oliva, Zachary F Fisher, Kathleen M Gates, Aidan G C Wright","doi":"10.1037/adb0001055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Alcohol use offers social benefits for young adults, but also carries risk of significant negative consequences. Better understanding of processes driving alcohol use for those who experience negative consequences can prevent these harms. These at-risk young adults likely have drinking patterns in common and patterns unique to each individual. Evidence for these processes have been limited by methods that fail to capture the complex, heterogeneous, multivariate nature of drinking. We overcome these limitations with idiographic computational models.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We studied a sample of 97 young adults who regularly binge drink and experience negative drinking consequences. Participants completed daily surveys for 120 days. We estimated temporal networks of each person's drinking patterns by searching all possible dynamic relations among self-reported alcohol consumption and various cognitive, motivational, and emotional constructs. This method allowed us to identify common and uncommon drinking processes in a data-driven manner.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found clear patterns of drinking characteristic of this population (i.e., shared by 60%-100% of the sample) in which young adults drink more per occasion, when they expect positive outcomes and are motivated to get drunk and enhance social experiences, which leads to positive and negative consequences. We also identified subsets of participants with uncommon (i.e., shared by < 51% of the sample) drinking patterns.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most young adults may continue to drink despite experiencing negative drinking consequences, because it also satisfies their desire for fun and social connection. Additionally, subsets of young adults have relatively uncommon drinking patterns that may reflect risk or resilience factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol consumption in middle to late life.","authors":"Daniel E Gustavson, Tyler R Bell, Erik J Buchholz, Stephanie Zellers, Susan E Luczak, Chandra A Reynolds, Brian K Finch, Marianne Nygaard, Vibeke S Catts, Kaare Christensen, Deborah Finkel, William S Kremen, Antti Latvala, Nicholas G Martin, Matt McGue, Louise Mewton, Miriam A Mosing, Matthew S Panizzon, Brenda L Plassman, Jaakko Kaprio, Margaret Gatz, Carol E Franz","doi":"10.1037/adb0001052","DOIUrl":"10.1037/adb0001052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Alcohol use is common in older adults and linked to poor health and aging outcomes. Studies have demonstrated genetic and environmental contributions to the quantity of alcohol consumption in mid-to-late life, but less is known about whether these influences are moderated by sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and educational attainment. This study sought to better understand sociodemographic trends in alcohol consumption across the second half of the life course and their underlying genetic and environmental influences.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Primary analyses were based on 64,140 middle-aged or older adult twins (40-102 years) from 14 studies in the Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies consortium. We harmonized a measure of weekly alcohol consumption (in grams of ethanol per week) across all studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Older age was associated with lower alcohol consumption, primarily for adults over age 75, for individuals with higher education, and for males. Trends were similar across birth cohorts and after excluding current abstainers. At mean age 56, alcohol use was moderately heritable in females (.34, 95% CI [.26, .41]) and more heritable in males (.42, 95% CI [.38, .45]). Heritability was lower in older aged adults and in females with higher education.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study represents the largest twin study of alcohol consumption in middle-aged and older adults. Results highlight that genetic and environmental factors influence alcohol consumption differently across age, sex, and educational attainment and that intervention efforts may need to be tailored based on individuals' backgrounds. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48325,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Addictive Behaviors","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}