Peer and partner drinking and the transition to marriage: A longitudinal examination of selection and influence processes.

Leonard, Kenneth E.; Mudar, Pamela

doi:10.1037/0893-164x.17.2.115

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“…However, from the first to second anniversaries, husbands did not exert any influence on their partner's cessation. Similarly, in our other research focused on alcohol use, we found that the husbands' alcohol use influences wives' use over the transition to marriage (Leonard & Das Eiden, 1999;Leonard & Mudar, 2003). However, there was no longitudinal influence from husband to wife in the second year.…”

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“…Complete details of the recruitment process can be found elsewhere (Leonard & Mudar, 2000;Leonard & Mudar, 2003), but briefly, couples that agreed to participate were given identical questionnaires to complete at home and asked them to return in separate postage paid envelopes (wave 1 assessment). Participants were asked not to discuss their responses with their spouses.…”

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“…In contrast, others have found that it is the husband's behaviors that influence his wife. For example, in two separate longitudinal studies of alcohol use in newlyweds (Leonard & Das Eiden, 1999;Leonard & Mudar, 2003), support was found for husbands influencing their wives' drinking over the transition to marriage, but not the reverse. However, the directionality of this influence pattern later changed.…”

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Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Leonard

Homish²

2005

Journal of Drug Issues

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Reductions in substance use tend to coincide with marriage, as both may occur during emerging adulthood. During the transition to marriage, it is possible that one's spouse may be the influence that causes the reduction in substance use. Data on participants (N = 471 couples) for this report are taken from a longitudinal study of early marriage. The objective of the current analysis is to determine if having a spouse who uses marijuana is associated with a greater likelihood of one's own use. Additionally, we are interested in spousal influence and cessation. The findings support spousal influence. Husbands are more likely to start using marijuana if their wives use marijuana, but the reverse is not true. Husbands also are more likely to stop using if their spouses do not use. During the transition into marriage, the drug use of one spouse does affect the other. However, this influence appears to be unidirectional, with wives influencing their husbands more often.

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Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

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Homish²

2005

Journal of Drug Issues

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“…However, there is little research that examines the direct and indirect influences of these individual, couple, and social characteristics on risky or problem drinking. The current study is based on a longitudinal study of drinking and drinking problems over the early years of marriage (Leonard & Mudar, 2003, 2004. In earlier analyses, we focused on predictors of heavy drinking from premarriage to the first anniversary.…”

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Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Leonard

Homish

2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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This study investigated the factors predictive of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the early years of marriage, focusing on the premarital drinking and relatively stable individual risk and protective factors that were present prior to marriage, and on social-interpersonal factors that may change or emerge over marriage. Newlywed couples were assessed at the time of marriage, and at the 1 st , 2 nd , and 4 th anniversaries with respect to frequency of heavy drinking and the extent of drinking problems, and a variety of factors that have been found to be predictive of adult alcohol problems. The results indicated that antisocial characteristics, family history of alcoholism, negative affect, and alcohol expectancies were related to heavy drinking and alcohol problems at the time of marriage. Changes after marriage were predicted by the drinking of one's partner and of one's peers and by alcohol expectancies for social/physical pleasure for both men and women. In addition, the quality of the marriage was longitudinally protective from the experience of alcohol problems for both men and women, although it was not related to changes in heavy drinking. KeywordsAlcohol Problems; Drinking Patterns; Marital Functioning; Partner Influence; Peer Influence Theoretical approaches to excessive drinking and alcohol problems have shifted from risk factor and person-environment interaction models to probabilistic-developmental models (e.g., Zucker, 2004) that incorporate person-environmental interactions into a broader developmental psychopathology approach (Windle & Davies, 1999). These models emphasize an array of biological, psychological, and social processes, sometimes acting in concert and sometimes in opposition to each other. This model argues that alcohol use and alcohol problems both affect and are affected by maturational processes and phase-specific transitional events. As Zucker, Fitzgerald, and Moses (1995) (p. 686). From this perspective, understanding the development of heavy drinking and alcohol problems is fostered by focusing on transitional events, particularly those that introduce, remove, or reorganize the biological, psychological, or social influences on drinking.One of the most important psychosocial transitional events is marriage, an event experienced by more than 70% of men and women by age 35 (Fields, 2003). Marriage carries with it a variety of tasks that can fundamentally alter an individual's view of self, as well as how the broader social network behaves toward the individual and the couple. At the psychological level, there is often a marked shift away from more individualistic values and toward more interdependent and socially positive values, consistent with the adoption of the new role of spouse. There is also often a major reorganization of the social network involving the reestablishment or redefinition of ties, both as individuals and as a couple, with each member's extended family and peer network (Boss, 1983;McGoldrick & Carter, 1982).In addition to these psycho-socia...

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“…Overall, dating and married couples exhibit different patterns of alcohol consumption because married couples tend to drink less (Bachman et al, 1996;Leonard and Mudar, 2003;Miller-Tutzauer et al, 1991;Temple et al, 1991). In addition, major life events, such as parenthood, may set married couples apart from dating or cohabiting couples.…”

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Young Adult Drinking Partnerships: Alcohol-Related Consequences and Relationship Problems Six Years Later

Wiersma¹,

Fischer²

2014

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: This study examines the association between young adult drinking partnerships (ages 18-26 years) and later alcohol-related problems and consequences, alcohol use, relationship quality, and relationship dissolution in adult relationships (ages 26-35). Method: Data came from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health; Waves III and IV) with 1,347 young adults and their partners at Wave III, including dating, cohabiting, and married couples, and individual adult behaviors at Wave IV, 6 years later. Drinking partnerships were based on alcohol use frequency, quantity, heavy episodic drinking, and getting drunk. Results: Four clusters included (a) congruent light and infrequent, (b) discrepant male heavy and frequent, (c) discrepant female heavy and frequent, and (d) congruent heavy and frequent drinkers. Young adult discrepant partnerships reported more alcohol-related problems and consequences 6 years later. Young adults in the congruent heavy drinking partnership indicated more separation/ divorce and alcohol use as adults. Young adult married men who drank discrepantly and higher compared to their wives reported higher rates of adult drinking and problems than other men. There were a number of negative effects from congruent heavy drinking, especially for women. Conclusions: These fi ndings demonstrated that there are multiple types of young adult drinking partnerships based on couples' alcohol use behaviors. Men may be at risk for serious alcohol-related problems later in adulthood, especially when paired with discrepant drinking partners and congruent heavy drinking partners. Women are at risk when in congruent, heavy and frequent drinking partnerships. Studying romantic relationships and drinking has implications for broad aspects of young adult and adult development. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 75, 704-712, 2014)

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Peer and partner drinking and the transition to marriage: A longitudinal examination of selection and influence processes.

Cited by 136 publications

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Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Changes in Marijuana use over the Transition into Marriage

Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Young Adult Drinking Partnerships: Alcohol-Related Consequences and Relationship Problems Six Years Later

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