ArticleAddictive behaviors2017
Combat experience and problem drinking in veterans: Exploring the roles of PTSD, coping motives, and perceived stigma.
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- Posttraumatic stress disorder, drinking to cope, and harmful alcohol use: A multivariate meta-analysis of the self-medication hypothesis.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Pooled it
- Drinking to cope moderates the efficacy of changing veteran drinking norms as a strategy for reducing drinking and alcohol-related problems among U.S. veterans.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Trial
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated factors among internally displaced people due to conflict in Northwest Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Assessing shared psychological constructs as risk factors in comorbid PTSD-AUD combat-exposed male veterans.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Latent Profiles of Drinking Motives Among Trauma-Exposed Combat Veterans and Civilians: A Comparative Investigation.Traumatology · 2024Article
- What Is the Role of Affective Cognition in Trauma and Posttraumatic-Stress-Disorder-Related Drinking? A Systematic Review.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Community-Based Recreational Therapy for Veterans with Behavioral Health Disorders: Impacts on Quality of Life, Participation, and Happiness.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
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- PTSD symptom heterogeneity and alcohol-related outcomes in U.S. military veterans: Indirect associations with coping strategies.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2022Article
- Drinking motivations in UK serving and ex-serving military personnel.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Review
- The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation among shidu parents: the role of stigma and social support.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Sleep, Intrusive Thoughts, and Alcohol Problems Among Veterans.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Observational
- A cluster-analytic approach to determining drinking motives and personality typologies: Trauma group differences and respective relations to PTSD and problematic alcohol use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- "That Guy, Is He Really Sick at All?" An Analysis of How Veterans with PTSD Experience Nature-Based Therapy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Associations among Trauma Exposure, Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Alcohol Use in Black/African American Treatment-Seeking Adults.Journal of dual diagnosisArticle
- Mental Health, Sexual Orientation, and Perceived Social Network Support in Relation to Hazardous Alcohol Consumption Among Active Duty Military Men.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe current investigation sought to illustrate the etiology of adverse alcohol consequences in young adult veterans using a path analytic framework.
methodsA total of 312 veterans aged 19-34 were enrolled in a larger intervention study on alcohol use. At baseline, participants completed measures of combat severity, PTSD symptom severity, and drinking motives to cope. At one month follow-up, participants completed measures of perceived stigma of behavioral health treatment seeking and past 30-day alcohol consequences.
resultsAfter entering the covariates of age, gender, race/ethnicity, and past year behavioral health treatment utilization, a path analytic model demonstrated a good fit to the data predicting alcohol consequences in this population. Further, a separate exploratory analysis confirmed that both drinking motives to cope and perceived stigma of behavioral health treatment seeking mediated the link between PTSD symptom severity and alcohol consequences.
conclusionsThe current model expands upon prior research showing the relationship between combat severity and alcohol use behavior in young adult veterans. Results support the notion that veterans with PTSD symptoms may drink to cope and that perceived stigma surrounding help seeking may further contribute to alcohol related problems.
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