ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2015
Coping Expectancies, Not Enhancement Expectancies, Mediate Trauma Experience Effects on Problem Alcohol Use: A Prospective Study From Early Childhood to Adolescence.
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- Targets for intervention to prevent substance use in young people exposed to childhood adversity: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Associations of child and adolescent anxiety with later alcohol use and disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Pooled it
- Subjective response to alcohol: Interactive effects of early life stress, parental risk for mood and substance use disorders, and drinking context.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Trial
- Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Binge Drinking among Adults: The Moderating Effect of Race/Ethnicity.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Internalizing Pathways to Adolescent Substance Use from Adverse Childhood Experiences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The Role of Perceived Stress in the Relation between Childhood Maltreatment and Severity of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Mediation Analysis.European addiction research · 2024Article
- Urgent need for substance use disorder research among understudied populations: examining the Asian-American experience.Health affairs scholar · 2023Article
- The Associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) With Substance Use in Young Adults: A Systematic Review.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2023Review
- Does insomnia mediate the link between childhood trauma and impaired control over drinking, alcohol use, and related problems?Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
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- Child maltreatment and the development of substance use and disorder.Neurobiology of stress · 2019Review
- Positive and negative reinforcement are differentially associated with alcohol consumption as a function of alcohol dependence.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Article
- A Systematic Review of Amenable Resilience Factors That Moderate and/or Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health in Young People.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Effects of Family Conflict and Anger on Alcohol Use Among American Indian Students: Mediating Effects of Outcome Expectancies.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2018Article
- From child maltreatment to emerging adult problem drinking: Identification of a multilevel internalizing pathway among African American youth.Development and psychopathology · 2017Article
- Adverse Environmental Exposures During Gestation and Childhood: Predictors of Adolescent Drinking.Substance use & misuse · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe relationship between experiencing trauma and increased alcohol consumption has been well established. Exposure to childhood trauma has been linked to both early onset of drinking and problematic substance use. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. The results of early work suggested that drinking to relieve negative affect (i.e., drinking to cope) was driving this connection. However, the findings of more recent work suggest that drinking might be used to enhance positive affect as a way of addressing the aftereffects of early trauma. The current study looked at these two drinking expectancies as indirect pathways between the experience in early childhood of living in a home with parental violence and peak alcohol use in emerging adulthood.
methodParticipants were 1,064 children and their parents involved in a longitudinal community study of children at high risk for the development of alcoholism and a community contrast group of those at lower risk. Baseline assessment was at age 3-5 years, self-reports of internalizing behavior and drinking expectancies were obtained at age 12-14, and drinking measures were assessed at age 18-20.
resultsResults indicated that coping expectancy was a mediator of the relationship between early childhood trauma and later peak alcohol use, whereas enhancement expectancy was not.
conclusionsChildren living in homes with parental violence were more likely to develop ineffective coping strategies, such as using alcohol to decrease negative affect. These results support the self-medication theory. They also demonstrate the long-term effects of early life experience on drinking behavior in early adulthood.
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