Citation

Littlefield AK, Sher KJ. Soc. Personal Psychol. Compass 2010; 4(9): 767-782.

Affiliation

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia and the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, Missouri.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Blackwell Publishing, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00296.x

PMID

21170162

PMCID

PMC3002230

Abstract

There is little question of whether personality is associated with problematic alcohol involvement (such as alcohol use disorders; AUDs); it clearly is. However, the question remains: how or why is personality related to risky drinking and AUDs? To address this question, theoretical models have been posited regarding the causal effects of personality on alcohol use and related problems. In this article, several of these models are summarized and reviewed. Future research directions are discussed, including possible frameworks that serve to integrate various models of the personality-AUD relation.

Language: en