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Psychopathology as dynamic markers of alcohol initiation across development: A three-year longitudinal examination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2023

Ashley L. Watts Open the ORCID record for Ashley L. Watts [Opens in a new window] ,
Mark I. Doss ,
Donte L. Bernard  and
Kenneth J. Sher
Ashley L. Watts*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Mark I. Doss
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Donte L. Bernard
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Kenneth J. Sher
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Corresponding author: Ashley L. Watts, email: ashleylwatts@gmail.com
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Abstract

Sipping, an early form of alcohol initiation, is associated with aspects of psychopathology and personality that reflect long-term risk for harmful alcohol use. In the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development cohort (N = 11,872), sipping by age 9–10 was concurrently associated with impulsivity, other aspects of externalizing, and prodromal schizophrenia symptoms. Still, these associations were cross-sectional in nature, leaving open the possibility that these features of psychopathology and personality might not reflect long-term risk for alcohol consumption and related harm across development. Here, we attempted to replicate baseline concurrent associations across three waves of data to extend concurrent associations to prospective ones. Most cross-sectional associations replicated across waves, such that impulsivity, other aspects of externalizing, reward sensitivity (e.g., surgency, sensation seeking), and prodromal schizophrenia symptoms were associated with increased odds of having sipped alcohol by the age of 12. Nevertheless, not all concurrent associations replicated prospectively; impulsigenic features did not reflect long-term risk for sipping. Thus, some psychopathology features appeared to reflect stable risk factors, whereas others appeared to reflect state-dependent risk factors. All told, sipping might not reflect long-term risk for harmful alcohol use, and the nature of sipping may change across development.

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alcohol initiationalcohol involvementalcohol sippingpersonalitypsychopathology
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Development and Psychopathology , First View , pp. 1 - 10
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