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Longitudinal Research on Alcohol Problems: The Flow of Risk, Problems, and Disorder over Time
Author(s) -
Zucker Robert A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01753.x
Subject(s) - citation , alcohol use disorder , longitudinal study , psychology , research center , center (category theory) , alcohol , library science , psychiatry , computer science , medicine , pathology , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , crystallography
Longitudinal research designs are still uncommon among alcohol researchers, yet they are the method of choice for establishing causal sequencing in complex human studies of the etiology of alcohol problems and alcoholism. Contributors to this symposium had two goals: (1) to highlight how this methodology will sometimes uncover findings about the causal structure of problematic alcohol(ic) outcomes that are divergent from those produced by cross sectional data bases; (2) to provide a sampling of some of the most interesting longitudinal studies currently in process, that are tracking the emergence, stability, and change in alcohol problems/alcoholism over periods ranging from 2 to 10 years, and developmental periods from early childhood to middle adulthood.