Drinking to cope mediates the relationship between depression and alcohol risk: Different pathways for college and non-college young adults.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:It is well-established that drinking to cope with negative affective states mediates the relationship between depressed mood and alcohol risk outcomes among college students. Whether non-college emerging adults exhibit a similar pathway remains unknown. In the current study, we compared the mediating role of coping motives in the relationship between depressive symptoms and drinking risk outcomes (heavy episodic drinking and alcohol problems) in college and non-college emerging adult subgroups. METHODS:Participants were three hundred forty-one community-recruited 18-25year olds reporting past month alcohol use. We used a structural equation modeling (SEM) for our primary mediation analysis and bias-corrected bootstrap resampling for testing the statistical significance of mediat

SUBMITTER: Kenney SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857241 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature