Do symptoms of depression and anxiety contribute to heavy episodic drinking? A 3-wave longitudinal study of adult community members

Andy J. Kim, Simon B. Sherry, Logan J. Nealis, Aislin Mushquash, Dayna Lee-Baggley, Sherry H. Stewart

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Heavy episodic drinking (or binge drinking) is a significant public health concern. Self-medication using alcohol is often thought to explain the co-occurrence of heavy episodic drinking with depression and anxiety. Yet, there is little longitudinal work examining both depressive and anxiety symptoms and how they are independently related to heavy episodic drinking in adult community samples. To this end, we invited adult community members (N = 102) to come to the lab to complete validated measures of depressive symptoms (composite of CES-D-SF, SCL-90-D, and DASS-21-D), anxiety symptoms (DASS-21-A), and heavy episodic drinking (composite of frequency, severity, and perceptions) at baseline, and again three and six months later. Using a three-wave cross-lagged panel model, we tested reciprocal relations between heavy episodic drinking and each internalizing symptom. We found strong temporal stability in our study variables. Depressive symptoms were associated with increases in heavy episodic drinking, and anxiety symptoms were associated with decreases in heavy episodic drinking. In contrast, heavy episodic drinking did not predict either internalizing symptom over time. Results are consistent with the notion that individuals with greater depressive symptoms use alcohol to self-medicate, and that anxiety symptoms (particularly autonomic arousal) may be potentially protective against future heavy episodic drinking.

Idioma originalEnglish
Número de artículo107295
PublicaciónAddictive Behaviors
Volumen130
DOI
EstadoPublished - jul. 2022

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Funding Information:
This manuscript was funded by a grant awarded to Logan J. Nealis, Dayna Lee-Baggley, and Simon B. Sherry from the Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund and an operating grant awarded to Simon B. Sherry from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Andy J. Kim is supported through a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship - Masters, and a Maritime SPOR Support Unit - Masters Award. Sherry H. Stewart is supported through a CIHR Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health. Logan J. Nealis was supported through a Canada Graduate Scholarship with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada at the time of data collection. Funding agencies were not involved in the research design, methodology, conduct, analysis, or write-up of the study, and imposed no constraints on publishing.

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© 2022 Elsevier Ltd

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Toxicology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article

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