Short-term changes in social role statuses across young adulthood and their relation to heavy drinking in a given month.

ABSTRACT: Young adulthood is a developmental period during which individuals experience shifts in their social roles in various domains, which coincides with a period of time that is also high risk for lifetime peaks in alcohol use. The current study examined age-related changes in heavy episodic drinking (HED) and high-intensity drinking (HID) and associations with short-term (i.e., monthly) variation in young adults' social roles over a 2.5-year period in a community sample of young adults who reported past-year alcohol use (N = 778, baseline age range 18-23). Results showed probabilities of past-month HED and HID changed in a nonlinear fashion across ages 18-26 with greater probabilities of use at younger ages. Most participants did not report being in the same social role status every sampled mo

SUBMITTER: Fairlie AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415536 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature