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DRINKING ALCOHOL TO IMPROVE MOOD PARTIALLY MEDIATES THE
RELATION BETWEEN MAJOR DEPRESSION AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
by
Kelly Young-Wolff
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Kelly Young-Wolff
Object Description
| Title | Drinking alcohol to improve mood partially mediates the relation between major depression and alcohol dependence |
| Author | Young-Wolff, Kelly |
| Author email | kellyyw@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-13 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 31 July 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-07-31 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Prescott, Carol |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gatz, Margaret Dawson, Michael |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study was to examine whether the relation between lifetime major depression (MD) and lifetime alcohol dependence (AD) is mediated by drinking to manage mood. Participants were 5506 individuals from the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders (VATSPSUD). First, it was hypothesized that drinking to manage mood partially mediates the association between MD and AD within individuals. Second, it was hypothesized that the overlapping familial risk for MD and AD is partially mediated by drinking to manage mood.; Both hypotheses were confirmed. Drinking to manage mood partially mediated the relation between MD and AD in both men and women. More specifically, after accounting for the genetic and environmental factors shared among drinking to manage mood, MD, and AD, there was little remaining overlapping genetic and environmental variance between AD and MD. |
| Keyword | alcohol dependence; major depression; drinking motives; twins |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1468 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Young-Wolff, Kelly |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-YoungWolff-20080731 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-YoungWolff-20080731.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | DRINKING ALCOHOL TO IMPROVE MOOD PARTIALLY MEDIATES THE RELATION BETWEEN MAJOR DEPRESSION AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE by Kelly Young-Wolff A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Kelly Young-Wolff |
