Symptoms of traumatic stress and substance use in a non-clinical sample of young adults

Intimate Partner Violence and Patterns of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence Criteria Among Women: A Latent Class Analysis

“…Taken together, these results support partial mediation of IPV-problem drinking relationship by MDD, suggesting that other indirect paths may exist independent of MDD. This fi nding is consistent with prior studies suggesting that psychiatric conditions at least partly account for the relationship between prior trauma and alcohol use (Edwards et al, 2006;Sartor et al, 2010). The current study's results should be considered with longitudinal research by Fergusson and colleagues, which suggests the causal direction fl ows from AUD to MDD (Fergusson et al, 2009).…”

Child Sexual Abuse, Dissociation, and Alcohol: Implications of Chemical Dissociation via Blackouts Among College Women

“…Despite 13% of college females reporting CSA (8), few studies have examined trauma exposure and dissociation relative to college drinking (6,9). Moreover, chemicallyinduced dissociation via blackout has gone relatively unstudied in college samples.…”

“…Heavy drinking may supply a chemically-induced dissociation (via blackouts), presumably allowing individuals to reach a level of emotional escape they may not be able to achieve otherwise. Accordingly, the amnesiac symptoms of alcohol-induced blackouts have been equated to dissociative-like amnesia (4,5) and mixed research has linked dissociation to harmful alcohol use in clinical and nonclinical populations (5)(6)(7).…”

Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Aggression, and Substance Use Coping among Young Adults

“…However, in a college student sample, reexperiencing symptoms were most strongly related to substance use (Edwards et al, 2006). The goal of this study is to understand how the symptom clusters are related to substance use coping and self-reported aggression in a college sample.…”

“…One study by Edwards, Dunham, Ries, and Barnett (2006) researched the relationship between traumatic stress and alcohol use in a sample of 92 college students. Intrusive thoughts were found to contribute to the amount of alcohol used.…”