(Revised) This present application requests 5 years of support to collect a 3rd wave of data on a bi-racial (Black, White) random sample of young adults who were initially interviewed 10 years ago when they were 13-19 yrs old, and 2 additional waves from a critical subsample. More than 2000 adolescents participated at Time 1 (Tl; 81 percent of eligibles), and 1814 (88 percent) of these were re-interviewed at T2 about 5 yrs later. At T3, we anticipate re-interviewing 1710 of these respondents, or 83 percent of the T1 sample. From those T3 respondents less than or equal to 25 yrs, we plan to re-interview a subsample of about 600 on 2 subsequent occasions, at yearly intervals. To date, this research has focused on explicating the multiple processes that underlie and account for the relationship between alcohol use and risky behavior. Analyses of T1 and T2 data provide evidence to support both causal and non-causal links between drinking and behavior and suggest that these multiple relationships are complex and likely circumscribed by important boundary conditions (Dermen et al., 1998; Dermen and Cooper, 1998). Given the wealth of data available from the 1st 2 waves, the significance of findings to date, the excellent overall sample retention rate, and the unique opportunity to examine complex inter-relations between alcohol use and risky behavior in a new and important developmental period in a high-risk, bi-racial sample, we propose to conduct a 5-yr follow-up of this cohort (as well as 6- and 7-yr follow-ups of a subsample) to address the following aims: (1) to examine ways in which intraindividual and dyadic relationship factors mediate and/or moderate the acute effects of drinking in specific social situations on risky behavior; (2) to develop a broader and more complete understanding of ways in which chronic patterns of alcohol use and of risky behavior influence one another over time; (3) to examine the roles of behavioral undercontrol and the experience, expression, and regulation of affect as underlying common causes of problematic alcohol use and risky behavior; (4) to describe normative patterns of change in alcohol use and risky behavior from adolescence into young adulthood, and to identify factors that influence these patterns; and (5) to systematically explore gender, race, and age differences in the above processes. In addition to re-interviewing the main cohort of respondents, we propose to interview partners of respondents (by phone), and to collect several sources of objective, non-self-report data. The heterogeneity of proposed methods, measures, and analytic techniques, the long longitudinal/prospective nature of our data, and the ability to examine generalizability of key findings across gender, race, and age, together provide a rich and methodologically rigorous framework for examining the complex interplay of drinking and risky behavior. The proposed study promises to yield results of substantial scientific, theoretical, and pragmatic import.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AA008047-11
Application #
6371317
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-AARR-7 (01))
Program Officer
Bryant, Kendall
Project Start
1988-09-29
Project End
2004-04-30
Budget Start
2001-05-01
Budget End
2002-04-30
Support Year
11
Fiscal Year
2001
Total Cost
$510,130
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
112205955
City
Columbia
State
MO
Country
United States
Zip Code
65211
O'Hara, Ross E; Cooper, M Lynne (2015) Bidirectional associations between alcohol use and sexual risk-taking behavior from adolescence into young adulthood. Arch Sex Behav 44:857-71
Levitt, Ash; Cooper, M Lynne (2015) Should Parents Allow Their Adolescent Children to Drink at Home? Family Factors as Predictors of Alcohol Involvement Trajectories Over 15 Years. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 76:661-70
Levitt, Ash; Cooper, M Lynne (2010) Daily alcohol use and romantic relationship functioning: evidence of bidirectional, gender-, and context-specific effects. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 36:1706-22
Cooper, M Lynne (2010) Toward a person x situation model of sexual risk-taking behaviors: illuminating the conditional effects of traits across sexual situations and relationship contexts. J Pers Soc Psychol 98:319-41
Cooper, M Lynne; Krull, Jennifer L; Agocha, V Bede et al. (2008) Motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among Black and White adolescents. J Abnorm Psychol 117:485-501
Sheldon, Kennon M; Cooper, M Lynne (2008) Goal striving within agentic and communal roles: separate but functionally similar pathways to enhanced well-being. J Pers 76:415-48
Sheldon, Melanie Skaggs; Cooper, M Lynne; Geary, David C et al. (2006) Fertility cycle patterns in motives for sexual behavior. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1659-73
Orcutt, Holly K; Cooper, M Lynne; Garcia, Marilyn (2005) Use of sexual intercourse to reduce negative affect as a prospective mediator of sexual revictimization. J Trauma Stress 18:729-39
Cooper, M Lynne; Wood, Phillip K; Orcutt, Holly K et al. (2003) Personality and the predisposition to engage in risky or problem behaviors during adolescence. J Pers Soc Psychol 84:390-410
Cooper, M Lynne; Sheldon, Melanie Skaggs (2002) Seventy years of research on personality and close relationships: substantive and methodological trends over time. J Pers 70:783-812

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