Childhood Emotional Abuse, Negative Emotion-driven Impulsivity, and Alcohol Use in Young Adulthood

Overview

Journal Child Abuse Negl

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2015 Mar 7

PMID 25743371

Citations 25

Authors

Sunny H Shin

Sungkyu Lee

Sae-Mi Jeon

Thomas A Wills

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Abstract

Childhood emotional abuse has been linked to problematic alcohol use in later life but there is a paucity of empirically based knowledge about the developmental pathways linking emotional abuse and alcohol use in young adulthood. Using a community sample of young individuals aged 18-25 (N=268; female 52%), we performed structural equation modeling to investigate whether emotional abuse influences alcohol use through urgent personality trait and to determine pathways for these effects in a multivariate context. We also examined variations in these pathways by four different alcohol use outcomes including frequency of alcohol use, binge drinking, alcohol-related problems, and alcohol use disorders (AUD). The present study found that emotional abuse was related to urgency, which in turn influenced four types of alcohol use. Urgency may play a significant role in linking childhood maltreatment to alcohol use in young adulthood.

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