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Monday, April 23, 2007

PRESS RELEASE:

Spousal choices can influence the risk of developing alcoholism

  • Alcohol dependence (AD) is more common among partners of alcoholics than among partners of non-alcoholics.
  • A new study examines two kinds of spousal similarity for influence on AD risk: assortative mating (like marries like), and reciprocal spousal interaction (an individual’s behavior directly influences his/her spouse’s behavior).
  • Assortative mating is reflected in an increased frequency of spousal AD; but spousal interaction seems to protect against spousal AD after accounting for assortative mating.
Alcohol dependence (AD) is more common among partners of alcoholics than among partners of non-alcoholics. A new examination of spousal similarity for alcohol consumption and AD risk reveals that while one type of association, assortative mating, results in an increased frequency of AD in partners, another type, spousal interaction, may diminish AD risk for spouses.
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