@article{ref1,
title="Maturing out of alcohol involvement: Transitions in latent drinking statuses from late adolescence to adulthood",
journal="Development and psychopathology",
year="2013",
author="Lee, Matthew R. and Villalta, Ian K. and Chassin, Laurie",
volume="25",
number="4 Pt 1",
pages="1137-1153",
abstract="Research has shown a developmental process of &quot;maturing out&quot; of alcohol involvement beginning in young adulthood, but the precise nature of changes characterizing maturing out is unclear. We used latent transition analysis to investigate these changes in a high-risk sample from a longitudinal study of familial alcoholism (N = 844; 51% children of alcoholics; 53% male, 71% non-Hispanic Caucasian, 27% Hispanic). Analyses classified participants into latent drinking statuses during late adolescence (ages 17-22), young adulthood (ages 23-28), and adulthood (ages 29-40), and characterized transitions among these statuses over time. The resulting four statuses were abstainers, low-risk drinkers who typically drank less than weekly and rarely binged or showed drinking problems, moderate-risk drinkers who typically binged less than weekly and showed moderate risk for drinking problems, and high-risk drinkers who typically binged at least weekly and showed high risk for drinking problems. Maturing out between late adolescence and young adulthood was most common among initial high-risk drinkers, but they typically declined to moderate-risk drinking rather than to nonrisky drinking statuses. This suggests that the developmental phenomenon of maturing out pertains primarily to relatively high-risk initial drinkers and that many high-risk drinkers who mature out merely reduce rather than eliminate their risky drinking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0954-5794",
doi="10.1017/S0954579413000424",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000424"
}