@article{ref1,
title="Maturing out: between- and within-persons changes in social-network drinking, drinking identity, and hazardous drinking following college graduation",
journal="Clinical psychological science",
year="2023",
author="Lindgren, Kristen P. and Baldwin, Scott A. and Peterson, Kirsten P. and Ramirez, Jason J. and Teachman, Bethany A. and Kross, Ethan and Wiers, Reinout W. and Neighbors, Clayton",
volume="11",
number="1",
pages="23-39",
abstract="Many college students reduce hazardous drinking (HD) following graduation without treatment. Identifying cognitive mechanisms facilitating this &quot;natural&quot; reduction in HD during this transition is crucial. We evaluated drinking identity as a potential mechanism and tested whether within-person changes in one's social network's drinking were linked to within-person changes in drinking identity and subsequent within-person changes in HD. A sample of 422 undergraduates reporting HD was followed from six months before until two years after graduation. Their drinking, drinking identity, and social networks were assessed online. Within-person changes in drinking identity did not mediate the relationship between within-person changes in social network drinking and personal HD, though significant positive between-person associations among all constructs were found. Instead, there was some evidence that within-person changes in drinking identity followed changes in HD, suggesting that drinking identity may function as a marker versus mechanism of &quot;natural&quot; HD reduction during transition out of college.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2167-7026",
doi="10.1177/21677026221082957",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21677026221082957"
}