Personality, Social Factors, Brain Functioning, Familial Risk, and Trajectories of Alcohol Misuse in Adolescence
Authors: Mira Tschorn, Laura Daedelow, Laura Szalek, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L. W. Bokde, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, Antoine Grigis, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Eric Artiges, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Christian Buechl, Michael N. Smolka, Nilakshi Vaidya, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Andreas Heinz, Michael A. Rapp, Trevor Robbin, Jeffrey Dalley, Naresh Subramaniam, David Theobald, Karl Mann, Christiane Bach, Maren Struve, Marcella Rietschel, Rainer Spanagel, Mira Fauth-Bühler, Sabina Millenet, Yvonne Grimmer, Mark Lathrop, Lisa Albrecht, Nikolay Ivanov, Nicole Strache, Andreas Ströhle, Jan Reuter, Jürgen Gallinat, Isabel Gemmeke, Alexander Genauck, Caroline Parchetka, Katharina Weiß, Johann Kruschwitz, Bianca Raffaelli, Alexis Barbot, Benjamin Thyreau, Yannick Schwartz, Christophe Lalanne, Vincent Frouin25, Frouin, John Rogers, James Ireland, Dirk Lanzerath, Jianfeng Feng, Zuleima Bricaud, Fanny Gollier Briand, Hervé LemaÎtre, Ruben Miranda, Jessica Massicotte, Helene Vulser, Jani Pentillä, Irina Filippi, André Galinowski, Pauline Bezivin, Anna Cattrell, Tianye Jia, Helen Werts, Lauren Topper, Laurence Reed, Chris Andrew, Catherine Mallik, Barbara Ruggeri, Gareth Barker, Charlotte Nymberg, Patricia J. Conrod, Lindsay Smith, Eva Loth, Stephanie Havatzias, Emily Kitson, Alice Robinson, Deborah Hall, Chiara Rubino, Hannah Wright, Kerstin Stueber, Eanna Hanratty, Eleanor Kennedy, Fabiana Mesquita de Carvahlo, Argyris Stringaris, Alex Ing, Gabriel Robert, Christine Macare, Bing Xu, Tao Yu, Erin Burke Quinlan, Patrick Constant, Semiha Aydin, Ruediger Brühl, Albrecht Ihlenfeld, Bernadeta Walaszek, Bernd Ittermann, Michael Smolka, Thomas Hübner, Kathrin Müller, Stephan Ripke, Sarah Jurk, Eva Mennigen, Dirk Schmidt, Nora Vetter, Veronika Ziesch, Juliane H. Fröhner, Daniel Carter, Susanne O’Driscoll, Emily Walsh, Maria Leonora Fatimah Agan, Mairead McMorrow, Sinead Nugent, Colm Connolly, Eoin Dooley, Clodagh Cremen, Jennifer Jones, John O’Keefe, Martin O’Connor, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Uli Bromberg, Tahmine Fadai, Juliana Yacubian, Sophia Schneider, Maria Lobatcheva, Claire Lawrence, Craig Newman, Kay Head, Alicia Stedman, Nadja Heym, Mehri Kaviani, Tomáš Paus, Dai Stephens, Zdenka Pausova, Amir Tahmasebi
Journal: JAMA Network Open (2024)

Importance The development of an alcohol use disorder in adolescence is associated with increased risk of future alcohol dependence. The differential associations of risk factors with alcohol use over the course of 8 years are important for preventive measures. Objective To determine the differential associations of risk-taking aspects of personality, social factors, brain functioning, and familial risk with hazardous alcohol use in adolescents over the course of 8 years. Design, Setting, and Participants The IMAGEN multicenter longitudinal cohort study included adolescents recruited from European schools in Germany, the UK, France, and Ireland from January 2008 to January 2019. Eligible participants included those with available neuropsychological, self-report, imaging, and genetic data at baseline. Adolescents who were ineligible for magnetic resonance imaging or had serious medical conditions were excluded. Data analysis was conducted from July 2021 to September 2022. Exposure Personality testing, psychosocial factors, brain functioning, and familial risk of alcohol misuse. Main Outcome and Measures Hazardous alcohol use as measured with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test scores, a main planned outcome of the IMAGEN study. Alcohol misuse trajectories at ages 14, 16, 19, and 22 years were modeled using latent growth curve models. Results A total of 2240 adolescents (1110 female [49.6%] and 1130 male [50.4%]) were included in the study. There was a significant negative association of psychosocial resources (β = −0.29; SE = 0.03; P &amp;amp;lt; .001) with the general risk of alcohol misuse as well as a significant positive association of the risk-taking aspects of personality with the intercept (β = 0.19; SE = 0.04; P &amp;amp;lt; .001). Furthermore, there were significant positive associations of the social domain (β = 0.13; SE = 0.02; P &amp;amp;lt; .001) and the personality domain (β = 0.07; SE = 0.02; P &amp;amp;lt; .001) with trajectories of alcohol misuse development over time (slope). Family history of substance misuse was negatively associated with general risk of alcohol misuse (β = −0.04; SE = 0.02; P = .045) and its development over time (β = −0.03; SE = 0.01; P = .01). Brain functioning showed no significant association with intercept or slope of alcohol misuse in the model. Conclusions and Relevance The findings of this cohort study suggest known risk factors of adolescent drinking may contribute differentially to future alcohol misuse. This approach may inform more individualized preventive interventions.