Research has consistently shown that heavy alcohol use during the first year of college is linked to current and future life problems. Thus, alcohol misuse among college students is a major public health concern. Disinhibited personality, stress, and negative affect are associated with high levels of alcohol use in college students. The relations between these variables have been partly explained by the self-medication model. It is likely that disinhibited personality plays a critical role in self-medication model of alcohol use through exposure (mediation) and reactivity (moderation) processes. Thus, I proposed to examine the selfmedication model of alcohol use by considering mediational and moderational processes of personality, namely impulsivity, using a longitudinal data set of college freshmen.
The specific aims of the current proposal are: 1) examine the relation between negative affect and alcohol use among college students with impulsivity and gender as moderators, 2) examine the relation between stress and alcohol use among college students with impulsivity as a moderator, 3) examine the relation between stress and negative affect among college students with gender as a moderator, and 4) examine the combination of exposure-reactivity model of impulsivity with the self-medication model of alcohol use among college students. ? ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31)
Project #
5F31AA016726-02
Application #
7296914
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAA1-HH (70))
Program Officer
Urbanas, Diana
Project Start
2006-09-29
Project End
2009-08-28
Budget Start
2007-09-29
Budget End
2008-09-28
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$30,857
Indirect Cost
Name
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
038633251
City
Buffalo
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
14260
Magid, Viktoriya; Colder, Craig R; Stroud, Laura R et al. (2009) Negative affect, stress, and smoking in college students: unique associations independent of alcohol and marijuana use. Addict Behav 34:973-5