Depressive symptoms are a vulnerability factor for heavy episodic drinking: A short-term,four-wave longitudinal study of undergraduate women |
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Authors: | Aislin R Mushquash Sherry H Stewart Simon B Sherry Dayna L Sherry Christopher J Mushquash Anna L MacKinnon |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H4R2;2. Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veteran''s Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H2E2;3. Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, 1276 South Park Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H2Y9;4. Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B5E1;5. Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B5E1;6. Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A1B1 |
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Abstract: | Heavy episodic drinking is increasingly common among undergraduate women. Cross-sectional research suggests that depressive symptoms and heavy episodic drinking are related. Nonetheless, surprisingly little is known about whether depressive symptoms are an antecedent of heavy episodic drinking, a consequence of heavy episodic drinking, or both. Such knowledge is essential to the accurate conceptualization of heavy episodic drinking, depressive symptoms, and their interrelations. In the present short-term longitudinal study, depressive symptoms and heavy episodic drinking were proposed to reciprocally influence each other over time, with depressive symptoms predicting changes in heavy episodic drinking over 1 week and vice versa. This reciprocal relations model was tested in 200 undergraduate women using a 4-wave, 4-week longitudinal design. Structural equation modeling was used to conduct cross-lagged analyses testing reciprocal relations between depressive symptoms and heavy episodic drinking. Consistent with hypotheses, both depressive symptoms and heavy episodic drinking were temporally stable, and depressive symptoms predicted changes in heavy episodic drinking over 1 week. Contrary to hypotheses, heavy episodic drinking did not predict changes in depressive symptoms over 1 week. Results are consistent with a vulnerability model suggesting depressive symptoms leave undergraduate women vulnerable to heavy episodic drinking. For undergraduate women who are struggling with feelings of sadness, worthlessness, and hopelessness, heavy episodic drinking may provide a temporary yet maladaptive means of avoiding or alleviating depressive symptoms. |
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Keywords: | Heavy episodic drinking Binge drinking Alcohol Depression Vulnerability Reciprocal |
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