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Drinking to cope mediates the relationship between depression and alcohol risk: Different pathways for college and non-college young adults
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Kenney, Shannon R. Anderson, Bradley J. Stein, Michael D. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Journal: Addictive Behaviors It is well-established that drinking to cope with negative affective states mediates the relationship between depressed mood and alcohol risk outcomes among college students. Whether non-college emerging adults exhibit a similar pathway remains unknown. In the current study, we compared the mediating role of coping motives in the relationship between depressive symptoms and drinking risk outcomes (heavy episodic drinking and alcohol problems) in college and non-college emerging adult subgroups. Participants were three hundred forty-one community-recruited 18–25 year olds reporting past month alcohol use. We used a structural equation modeling (SEM) for our primary mediation analysis and bias-corrected bootstrap resampling for testing the statistical significance of mediation. Participants averaged 20.8 (± 1.97) years of age, 49% were female, 67.7% were White, 34.6% were college students, and 65.4% were non-college emerging adults. College and non-college emerging adults reported similar levels of drinking, alcohol problems, and drinking to cope with negative affect, and drinking to cope was associated with alcohol-related problems in both samples. However, while drinking to cope mediated the relationship between depressed mood and alcohol problems among students, it did not mediate the pathway among non-college emerging adults. These findings caution against extending college-based findings to non-college populations and underscore the need to better understand the role of coping motives and other intervening factors in pathways linking depressed mood and alcohol-related risk in non-college emerging adults. |
| Related Links | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857241/pdf |
| Ending Page | 123 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 116 |
| ISSN | 03064603 |
| e-ISSN | 18736327 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.01.023 |
| Journal | Addictive Behaviors |
| Volume Number | 80 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2018-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Addictive Behaviors Substance Abuse Coping Motives Alcohol Consumption Alcohol Consequences Emerging Adulthood |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Toxicology Clinical Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health |
