Drinking motives, personality traits and life stressors-identifying pathways to harmful alcohol use in adolescence using a panel network approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Models of alcohol use risk suggest that drinking motives represent the most proximal risk factors on which more distal factors converge. However, little is known about how distinct risk factors influence each other and alcohol use on different temporal scales (within a given moment versus over time). We aimed to estimate the dynamic associations of distal (personality and life stressors) and proximal (drinking motives) risk factors, and their relationship to alcohol use in adolescence and early adulthood using a novel graphical vector autoregressive (GVAR) panel network approach.

Design, setting and cases

We estimated panel networks on data from the IMAGEN study, a longitudinal European cohort study following adolescents across three waves (aged 16, 19 an

SUBMITTER: Freichel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497352 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature