Two major data collections are planned for the next award period, Wave 5 (W5) at the seventh anniversary for the couples, and Wave 6 (W6) at the ninth anniversary. Couples who were recruitedinto the study in 1996 were assessed for W5 beginning in the Fall of 2003. W5 assessment will continue for the sample for the first 1.5 years of the next award period (April 2005 to September 2006). The W6 assessment willbegin in September 2005, and continue until September 2008. These assessments will continue to focus on drinking partnerships, marital functioning, and peer/familynetworks. In addition, couples with children between the ages of 2 and 17will provide reports on child behavior problems and parenting behavior at both of these assessments. Substantively, we will continue to focus on drinking partnerships, marital functioning, and peer/familynetworks, and our analyses will continue to examine the longitudinal relationship among these domains. In particular, we will test the implications of the relationship motivation model for understanding husband and wife drinking, and the relevance of discrepant couple drinking for marital functioning. We will also further test a stress-coping model for alcohol and marital violence, and determine whether it can be applied to other alcohol-relatedmarital problems. We will extend our analyses to address three issues of emerging importance in this sample. First, the seventh through the ninth anniversaries are critical ones with respect to marital dissolutions and we will examine the impact of recent and chronic drinking on marital dissolution controlling for other factors related to drinking and divorce. We will also test the hypothesis that couples in which both members are heavy drinkers may be less likely to divorce. A second emerging focus will be the importance of children relative to parental alcohol use. We will be examine the interrelationship between drinking, marital stress, and parenting stress, and the longitudinal impact of this on child functioning, as well as to examine whether child behavior problems influenceparental drinking and marital conflict. Finally, research indicates that many employed adults with family responsibilities report that their work and family roles interferewith one another and that this work-familyconflict is associated with adverse outcomes, including heavier or problematic drinking. In the next award period, we will be able to examine these issues longitudinally and integrate information concerning coworker drinking into models of family/work conflict and drinking.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award (R37)
Project #
5R37AA009922-13
Application #
7213442
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (NSS)
Program Officer
Scott, Marcia S
Project Start
1996-04-01
Project End
2009-03-31
Budget Start
2007-04-01
Budget End
2008-03-31
Support Year
13
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$358,839
Indirect Cost
Name
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
038633251
City
Buffalo
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
14260
Levitt, Ash; Leonard, Kenneth E (2015) Insecure attachment styles, relationship-drinking contexts, and marital alcohol problems: Testing the mediating role of relationship-specific drinking-to-cope motives. Psychol Addict Behav 29:696-705
Leonard, Kenneth E; Winters, Jamie J; Kearns-Bodkin, Jill N et al. (2014) Dyadic Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence in Early Marriage. Psychol Violence 4:384-398
Smith, Philip H; Homish, Gregory G; Collins, R Lorraine et al. (2014) Couples' marijuana use is inversely related to their intimate partner violence over the first 9 years of marriage. Psychol Addict Behav 28:734-42
Leonard, Kenneth E; Smith, Philip H; Homish, Gregory G (2014) Concordant and discordant alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use as predictors of marital dissolution. Psychol Addict Behav 28:780-9
Levitt, Ash; Leonard, Kenneth E (2013) Relationship-specific alcohol expectancies and relationship-drinking contexts: reciprocal influence and gender-specific effects over the first 9 years of marriage. Psychol Addict Behav 27:986-96
Derrick, Jaye L; Leonard, Kenneth E; Homish, Gregory G (2013) Perceived partner responsiveness predicts decreases in smoking during the first nine years of marriage. Nicotine Tob Res 15:1528-36
Kachadourian, Lorig K; Homish, Gregory G; Quigley, Brian M et al. (2012) Alcohol expectancies, alcohol use, and hostility as longitudinal predictors of alcohol-related aggression. Psychol Addict Behav 26:414-22
Lau-Barraco, Cathy; Braitman, Abby L; Leonard, Kenneth E et al. (2012) Drinking buddies and their prospective influence on alcohol outcomes: alcohol expectancies as a mediator. Psychol Addict Behav 26:747-58
Derrick, Jaye L; Leonard, Kenneth E; Homish, Gregory G (2012) Dependence regulation in newlywed couples: A prospective examination. Pers Relatsh 19:644-662
Homish, Gregory G; Leonard, Kenneth E; Cornelius, Jack R (2010) Individual, partner and relationship factors associated with non-medical use of prescription drugs. Addiction 105:1457-65

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