Alcohol use disorder, psychiatric comorbidities, marriage and divorce in a high-risk sample.
Nathaniel S ThomasSally I-Chun KuoFazil AlievVivia V McCutcheonJacquelyn M MeyersGrace ChanVictor M HesselbrockChella KamarajanSivan KinreichJohn R KramerSamuel KupermanDongbing LaiMartin H PlaweckiBernice PorjeszMarc A SchuckitDanielle M DickKathleen K BucholzJessica E SalvatorePublished in: Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (2022)
In a high-risk sample, AUD was associated with reduced likelihood of marriage in EA and AA individuals and increased risk of divorce in EA individuals. These associations were largely independent of comorbidities. Genetic and environmental background factors contributed to marriage, while only environmental background factors contributed to divorce. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).