TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Maturing out: between- and within-persons changes in social-network drinking, drinking identity, and hazardous drinking following college graduation
JO  - Clinical psychological science
A1  - Lindgren, Kristen P.
A1  - Baldwin, Scott A.
A1  - Peterson, Kirsten P.
A1  - Ramirez, Jason J.
A1  - Teachman, Bethany A.
A1  - Kross, Ethan
A1  - Wiers, Reinout W.
A1  - Neighbors, Clayton
SP  - 23
EP  - 39
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
N2  - Many college students reduce hazardous drinking (HD) following graduation without treatment. Identifying cognitive mechanisms facilitating this "natural" 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 "natural" HD reduction during transition out of college.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2167-7026
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21677026221082957
ID  - ref1
ER  -