TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Functional limitation, pain, and alcohol use: exploring gender differences in the mediating role of depressive symptoms
JO  - Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
A1  - Brown, Robyn Lewis
SP  - 809
EP  - 817
VL  - 76
IS  - 5
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This study considered the processes linking functional limitation and pain with depressive symptoms and two alcohol-related outcomes (past-month drinking and problematic drinking) over a 3-year period. <br><br>METHOD: Data were drawn from a two-wave Miami-Dade County community study of people with physical disabilities (N = 559). Structural equation modeling was used to assess whether depressive symptoms mediated the associations among functional limitation, bodily pain, and the alcohol-related outcomes considered, and whether these associations were moderated by gender. <br><br>RESULTS: When the effects of the sociodemographic control variables were controlled for, depressive symptoms partly explained the effects of Wave 1 functional limitation and bodily pain on problematic drinking at Wave 2. The mediating effects of depressive symptoms on problematic drinking were significantly greater for men than for women. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The findings demonstrate clear linkages between two physical health indicators, depressive symptoms and drinking, and highlight the circumstances in which gender matters most for understanding these associations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1937-1888
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -