@article{ref1,
title="Solitary alcohol use in teens is associated with drinking in response to negative affect and predicts alcohol problems in young adulthood",
journal="Clinical psychological science",
year="2014",
author="Creswell, Kasey G. and Chung, Tammy and Clark, Duncan B. and Martin, Christopher S.",
volume="2",
number="5",
pages="602-610",
abstract="Adolescent solitary drinking may represent an informative divergence from normative behavior, with important implications for understanding risk for alcohol-use disorders later in life. Within a self-medication framework, we hypothesized that solitary alcohol use would be associated with drinking in response to negative affect and that such a pattern of drinking would predict alcohol problems in young adulthood. We tested these predictions in a longitudinal study in which we examined whether solitary drinking in adolescence (ages 12-18) predicted alcohol-use disorders in young adulthood (age 25) in 466 alcohol-using teens recruited from clinical programs and 243 alcohol-using teens recruited from the community. <br><br>FINDINGS showed that solitary drinking was associated with drinking in response to negative affect during adolescence and predicted alcohol problems in young adulthood. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that drinking alone is an important type of alcohol-use behavior that increases risk for the escalation of alcohol use and the development of alcohol problems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2167-7026",
doi="10.1177/2167702613512795",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702613512795"
}