TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Childhood emotional abuse, negative emotion-driven impulsivity, and alcohol use in young adulthood
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Shin, Sunny H.
A1  - Lee, Sungkyu
A1  - Jeon, Sae-Mi
A1  - Wills, Thomas A.
SP  - 94
EP  - 103
VL  - 50
IS  - 
N2  - Childhood emotional abuse has been linked to problematic alcohol use in later life but there is a paucity of empirically based knowledge about the developmental pathways linking emotional abuse and alcohol use in young adulthood. Using a community sample of young individuals aged 18-25 (N=268; female 52%), we performed structural equation modeling to investigate whether emotional abuse influences alcohol use through urgent personality trait and to determine pathways for these effects in a multivariate context. We also examined variations in these pathways by four different alcohol use outcomes including frequency of alcohol use, binge drinking, alcohol-related problems, and alcohol use disorders (AUD). The present study found that emotional abuse was related to urgency, which in turn influenced four types of alcohol use. Urgency may play a significant role in linking childhood maltreatment to alcohol use in young adulthood.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.02.010
ID  - ref1
ER  -