Traumatic Event Exposure and Alcohol Use Expectancies among Adolescents

Heidemarie Blumenthal; Ellen W. Leen-Feldner; Ashley A. Knapp; Christal L. Badour; Adriel Boals

doi:10.1080/1067828X.2013.839407

Traumatic Event Exposure and Alcohol Use Expectancies among Adolescents

Heidemarie Blumenthal, Ellen W. Leen-Feldner, Ashley A. Knapp, Christal L. Badour, Adriel Boals

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Extant work suggests that trauma-exposed adolescents are at risk for problematic drinking. Although work conducted with adults suggests that trauma-exposed individuals drink to reduce negative affectivity, no work has yet examined alcohol use outcome expectancies (AOEs) among trauma-exposed adolescents. The current study examined positive AOEs as a function of trauma history among 63 community-recruited youths (M_age = 15.92; 46% girls). Findings indicated that trauma exposure predicted elevated tension-reduction AOEs. Furthermore, the indirect effect of tension-reduction expectancies accounted for a significant proportion of the relation between trauma exposure and alcohol use frequency. These preliminary data are discussed in terms of future research efforts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	337-343
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
Volume	24
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2013.839407
State	Published - Nov 2 2015

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Keywords

adolescent development
alcohol use outcome expectancies
trauma

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Education
General Psychology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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