Reciprocal associations between implicit attitudes and drinking in emerging adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implicit alcohol attitudes are considered important in the etiology of drinking, and theory posits reciprocal associations between them. Research testing reciprocal associations between implicit attitudes (using the Implicit Association Task, IAT) and drinking is limited by a failure to consider multiple processes influencing performance on the IAT and to disaggregate within- and between-person effects. The current study addressed these limitations by using a diffusion model to analyze IAT data and Latent Curve Models with Structured Residuals to test reciprocal associations.

Methods

The sample included 314 emerging adults from the community (52% female; predominantly non-Hispanic Caucasian (76%) or African American (15%)) assessed annually for three years. Differ

SUBMITTER: Paige KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858865 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature