Citation

Schutte KK, Moos RH, Brennan PL. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 1995; 63(5): 810-822.

Affiliation

Center for Health Care Evaluation (152), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7593875

Abstract

This 3-wave longitudinal study analyzed latent variable cross-lagged models of the relation between depressive symptoms and drinking behavior separately for 621 late-middle-aged women and 951 late-middle-aged men. Time lags of 1 and 3 years were used. Among women, heavier alcohol consumption predicted less depressive symptomatology 1 and 3 years later, whereas among men, having more depressive symptoms predicted less alcohol consumption later on. Including cross-temporal paths in the women's depression-drinking problems model did not provide a significant improvement over hypothesizing no cross-temporal effects. Among men, however, having more drinking problems was associated with fewer depressive symptoms 3 years later. These findings were robust in follow-up analyses controlling for the effects of socioeconomic and health status.

Language: en