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Creswell KG, Chung T, Clark DB, et al. Solitary Alcohol Use in Teens Is Associated With Drinking in Response to Negative Affect and Predicts Alcohol Problems in Young Adulthood. Clin Psychol Sci. 2014;2(5):602-610doi: 10.1177/2167702613512795.
Creswell, K. G., Chung, T., Clark, D. B., & Martin, C. S. (2014). Solitary Alcohol Use in Teens Is Associated With Drinking in Response to Negative Affect and Predicts Alcohol Problems in Young Adulthood. Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2(5), 602-610. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702613512795
Creswell, Kasey G, et al. "Solitary Alcohol Use in Teens Is Associated With Drinking in Response to Negative Affect and Predicts Alcohol Problems in Young Adulthood." Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science vol. 2,5 (2014): 602-610. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702613512795
Creswell KG, Chung T, Clark DB, Martin CS. Solitary Alcohol Use in Teens Is Associated With Drinking in Response to Negative Affect and Predicts Alcohol Problems in Young Adulthood. Clin Psychol Sci. 2014 Sep;2(5):602-610. doi: 10.1177/2167702613512795. PMID: 25977842; PMCID: PMC4426387.
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Clin Psychol Sci. 2014 Sep;2(5):602-610. doi: 10.1177/2167702613512795.

Solitary Alcohol Use in Teens Is Associated With Drinking in Response to Negative Affect and Predicts Alcohol Problems in Young Adulthood.

Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

Kasey G Creswell, Tammy Chung, Duncan B Clark, Christopher S Martin

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University ; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

PMID: 25977842 PMCID: PMC4426387 DOI: 10.1177/2167702613512795

Abstract

Adolescent solitary drinking may represent an informative divergence from normative behavior, with important implications for understanding risk for alcohol-use disorders later in life. Within a self-medication framework, we hypothesized that solitary alcohol use would be associated with drinking in response to negative affect and that such a pattern of drinking would predict alcohol problems in young adulthood. We tested these predictions in a longitudinal study in which we examined whether solitary drinking in adolescence (ages 12-18) predicted alcohol-use disorders in young adulthood (age 25) in 466 alcohol-using teens recruited from clinical programs and 243 alcohol-using teens recruited from the community. Findings showed that solitary drinking was associated with drinking in response to negative affect during adolescence and predicted alcohol problems in young adulthood. Results indicate that drinking alone is an important type of alcohol-use behavior that increases risk for the escalation of alcohol use and the development of alcohol problems.

Keywords: adolescent development; drug/substance abuse; longitudinal methods

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