APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Impulsivity and Social Support As Mediators to Alcohol Use Among Recent Immigrants

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Adam Brand
    The Chicago School of Professional Psychology - Washington DC
  • Ansari Zain
    The Chicago School - Washington DC
  • Saffron Dabre
    The Chicago School of Professional Psychology - Washington DC
  • Michael Scherer
    The Chicago School of Professional Psychology - Washington DC
  • Eduardo Romano
    Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
  • Mariana Sanchez
    Florida International University

Abstract

Social support and impulsivity have been found to protect against and promote alcohol use. Using structural equation modelling, the current study demonstrated the potential of impulsivity and social support to mediate the relationship between immigration trauma and alcohol use in the country of origin to alcohol use after immigration.

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