ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2018
Heavy, Problematic College Drinking Predicts Increases in Impulsivity.
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- Personality changes related to presence and treatment of substance use (disorders): a systematic review.Psychological medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Manifestation of Drinking Profiles in Daily Life: Associations With Momentary Negative Affect, Impulsivity, and Drinking.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- The reducing effect of visuospatial cognitive load on alcohol craving in problematic drinkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Longitudinal Associations between Sensation Seeking and Its Components and Alcohol Use in Young SWISS Men-Are There Bidirectional Associations?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveImpulsigenic personality traits are among the many factors demonstrated to predict drinking behavior among late adolescents. The current study tested the opposite possibility, that during the emerging adulthood developmental period, problematic drinking behavior predicts increases in impulsigenic traits. This possibility is important because such traits increase risk for multiple forms of dysfunction.
methodUsing a prospective design, we studied the personality traits and drinking behavior of 458 traditional college freshmen over one year.
resultsWe found that drinking problems predicted increases in urgency (the tendency to act rashly when highly emotional), lack of planning (the tendency to act without forethought), and lack of perseverance (difficulty maintaining focus on a task).
conclusionsMaladaptive personality change may be one mechanism that increases risk transdiagnostically for some individuals who drink problematically during college. Increases in impulsigenic traits predictable from problem drinking put individuals at risk for not only more drinking, but a host of other negative outcomes.
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