Patterns of stress generation differ depending on internalizing symptoms, alcohol use, and personality traits in early adulthood: a five year longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is thought to generate stressful life events. However, other internalizing symptoms such as anxiety or post-traumatic stress and individual difference variables such as personality traits and alcohol use may contribute to stressful life events. Whether stress generation is specific to depression or generalized to these other variables is unclear. Therefore, we tested whether stress generation was depression specific or generalizable to anxiety, PTSD, alcohol use, neuroticism, and extraversion.

Design

Two-wave longitudinal study with a five-year follow-up.

Methods

917 young adults completed measures of internalizing symptoms, alcohol use, neuroticism, and extraversion during college and five years later along with an interview-based measure of lif

SUBMITTER: Goldstein BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490491 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature