The Intergenerational Transmission of a Stress-Coping Model of Alcohol Use and Disorder
Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Substance use disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders diagnosed in young adulthood, and previous literature supports the intergenerational transmission of substance use. In order to explain this transmission, the current study focused on the stress-coping model as a potential mechanism. Using data from a multigenerational longitudinal study, it tested whether an individual stress-coping model recurs within alcoholic families over a generation or whether other factors that co-occur with AUDs are responsible for this intergenerational pattern of alcohol use and disorder. Results supported the individual transmission of stress, avoidant coping, and maladaptive coping patterns (e.g., high levels of stress coupled with high levels of avoidant coping) across familial generations. Additionally, these individual pathways negatively predicted adolescent G3 alcohol use and binge drinking. Potential explanations and implications of these findings are considered.
DOI: 10.17615/pfjv-6k96
Author: Solis, Jessica
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2567615386