Integrating Social‐Contextual and Intrapersonal Mechanisms of “Maturing Out”: Joint Influences of Familial‐Role Transitions and Personality Maturation on Problem‐Drinking Reductions

摘要: Background “Maturing out” of problem drinking is associated with both role transitions (e.g., getting married) and personality development. However, little known concerning how these 2 mechanisms jointly influence problem-drinking desistance. This study investigated whether salutary effects occur at different points in young-adult development they mediate one another's effects. Methods Participants were initially recruited as first-year undergraduates, family history alcoholism overrepresented by design (N = 489). Using 4 waves data roughly ages 21, 25, 29, 34, cross-lagged panel models estimated prospective relations among familial-role (marriage or parenthood), (disinhibition, conscientiousness, neuroticism), drinking. Results Mixed support was found for the prediction roles being more strongly earlier maturing out later out. Regarding mediation, no evidence expectation that would be mediated personality. results did mediation transitions. Specifically, lower disinhibition higher conscientiousness emerging adulthood predicted adoption, which, turn, reductions. Family also distally influenced processes. Conclusions The differential timing consistent notion of decreasing contextual influences increasing intrapersonal across In light incompatibility theory, suggest that, over course development, association familial may increasingly reflect on entry (i.e., selection) decreasingly socialization). As emerging-adult an apparent developmental cascade direct indirect effects, findings highlight their potential importance etiologic intervention targets.