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Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Coping Motives Mediate the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Alcohol Problems

Abstract

Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk of alcohol misuse. Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and coping motives have both been identified, separately, as mediators of the relation between childhood maltreatment and alcohol misuse but have yet to be examined as serial mediators in a high-risk population. A total of 564 adolescents (53.7% female; M age = 15.9 years, SD = 1.1) in the care of child welfare services completed …

Authors

Park T; Thompson K; Wekerle C; Al‐Hamdani M; Smith S; Hudson A; Goldstein A; Stewart SH

Journal

Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 918–926

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

12 2019

DOI

10.1002/jts.22467

ISSN

0894-9867