Gender and age differences in the associations between family social roles and excessive alcohol use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Familial social roles are known to have important links with both acute and chronic excessive alcohol use. However, whether and how these links vary across adulthood and by gender is not well understood and would provide insight into populations most at risk for excessive alcohol use.

Methods

This study used data from those ages 18 to 60 in the National Epidemiologic Study of Alcohol and Related Conditions-III survey (N=28,475). We examined the gender- and age-varying associations of current marital status (married vs. divorced/separated vs. never married) and parental status (parent vs. not) with acute (binge drinking) and chronic (exceeding weekly drinking guidelines) excessive alcohol use using time-varying effect modelling.

Results

Both marital and pare

SUBMITTER: Evans-Polce RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6983322 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature