Objective: Binge drinking (also called heavy episodic drinking, risky single-occasion
drinking etc.) is a major public health problem. This paper provides an overview of recently …

Binge drinking, commonly defined as consuming five or more standard drinks per occasion
for men and four or more drinks for women, typically begins in adolescence. Adolescents …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest among researchers in the use of latent
class and growth mixture modeling techniques for applications in the social and …

In this article, we draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to name what appear to be
core dimensions of successful young adult development. We also describe some possible …

Individual differences in impulsivity underlie a good deal of the risk taking that is observed
during adolescence, and some of the most hazardous forms of this behavior are linked to …

Growth mixture models are often used to determine if subgroups exist within the population
that follow qualitatively distinct developmental trajectories. However, statistical theory …

Introduction Adolescent use of social media has been linked to a range of negative
outcomes, but it is still unclear whether the associations are spurious. To address this issue …

This study describes binge drinking trajectories from adolescence to emerging adulthood in
238 children of alcoholics and 208 controls. Mixture modeling identified three trajectory …

Late adolescence (ie, 16–20 years of age) is a period characterized by escalation of
drinking and alcohol use problems for many and by the onset of an alcohol use disorder for …

Substance use trajectories were examined from early adolescence to young adulthood
among a diverse sample of 998 youths. Analysis of longitudinal data from ages 12 to 24 …