Personality disorder symptoms, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences: cross-sectional and prospective mediation

Sarah L Tragesser; Kenneth J Sher; Timothy J Trull; Aesoon Park

doi:10.1037/1064-1297.15.3.282

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Personality disorder symptoms, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences: cross-sectional and prospective mediation

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Personality disorder symptoms, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences: cross-sectional and prospective mediation

Sarah L Tragesser, Kenneth J Sher, Timothy J Trull and Aesoon Park

Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, Vol.15(3), pp.282-292

06/2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/1064-1297.15.3.282

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/105243

PMCID: PMC2673803

PMID: 17563215

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Prospective Studies

Cross-Sectional Studies

Follow-Up Studies

Alcohol-Related Disorders - psychology

Alcohol-Related Disorders - complications

Humans

Alcohol Drinking - psychology

Male

Motivation

Adult

Female

Interview, Psychological - methods

Personality Disorders - psychology

Alcoholism - complications

Alcoholism - psychology

Personality Disorders - complications

Research shows high comorbidity between Cluster B personality disorders (PDs) and alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Studies on personality traits and alcohol use have identified coping and enhancement drinking motives as mediators in the relations among impulsivity, affective instability, and alcohol use. To the extent that PDs reflect extreme expression of these traits, drinking motives should mediate the relation between PD symptoms and alcohol involvement. This was tested using path models estimating the extent to which coping and enhancement drinking motives mediated the relation between Cluster B symptom counts and alcohol use and problems both concurrently and at a 5-year follow-up. Three hundred fifty-two adults participated in a multiwave study of risk for alcoholism (average age = 29 years at Wave 1). Enhancement motives mediated (a) the cross-sectional relation between Cluster B symptoms and drinking quantity/frequency, heavy drinking, total drinking consequences, dependence features, and AUD diagnosis and (b) the prospective relation to AUDs. Although coping motives mediated the relation between Cluster B symptoms and drinking consequences and dependence features cross-sectionally, prospective effects were limited to indirect effects through Time 1.

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Title: Personality disorder symptoms, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences: cross-sectional and prospective mediation
Creators: Sarah L Tragesser - Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. sarah@tragesser.net
Kenneth J Sher
Timothy J Trull
Aesoon Park
Publication Details: Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, Vol.15(3), pp.282-292
Academic Unit: Psychology, Department of
Publisher: United States
Grant note: R01 AA013987 / NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA013526 / NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA013526-06 / NIAAA NIH HHS AA13987 / NIAAA NIH HHS MH52695 / NIMH NIH HHS T32 AA13526 / NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA013987-04 / NIAAA NIH HHS
Identifiers: 99900546609801842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article