Bartel Sara J, Sherry Simon B, Molnar Danielle S, Mushquash Aislin R, Leonard Kenneth E, Flett Gordon L, Stewart Sherry H
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, 1355 Oxford Street, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
Addict Behav. 2017 Jun;69:55-58. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.01.020. Epub 2017 Jan 12.
Approximately one in five adults engage in heavy episodic drinking (HED), a behavior with serious health and social consequences. Environmental, intrapersonal, and interpersonal factors contribute to and perpetuate HED. Prior research supports the partner influence hypothesis where partners influence each other's HED.
We examined the partner influence hypothesis longitudinally over three years in heterosexual couples in serious romantic relationships, while exploring possible sex differences in the magnitude of partner influence.
One-hundred-and-seventy-nine heterosexual couples in serious relationships (38.5% married at baseline) completed a measure of HED at baseline and again three years later.
Using actor-partner interdependence modelling, results showed actor effects for both men and women, with HED remaining stable for each partner from baseline to follow-up. Significant partner effects were found for both men and women, who both positively influenced their partners' HED over the three-year follow-up.
The partner influence hypothesis was supported. Results indicated partner influences on HED occur over the longer term and apply to partners in varying stages of serious romantic relationships (e.g., cohabiting, engaged, married). Women were found to influence their partners' HED just as much as men influence their partners' HED. Findings suggest HED should be assessed and treated as a couples' issue rather than simply as an individual risky behavior.
约五分之一的成年人有重度饮酒行为，这种行为会带来严重的健康和社会后果。环境、个人内在及人际因素会导致并使重度饮酒行为持续存在。先前的研究支持伴侣影响假说，即伴侣会相互影响对方的重度饮酒行为。
我们对处于稳定恋爱关系中的异性恋伴侣进行了为期三年的纵向研究，以检验伴侣影响假说，同时探究伴侣影响程度方面可能存在的性别差异。
179对处于稳定恋爱关系中的异性恋伴侣（基线时38.5%已婚）在基线时完成了一项重度饮酒行为测量，三年后再次进行测量。
采用行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型分析，结果显示男性和女性均存在行为者效应，从基线到随访，每个伴侣的重度饮酒行为保持稳定。男性和女性均存在显著的伴侣效应，在三年的随访期内，双方均对伴侣的重度饮酒行为产生了正向影响。
伴侣影响假说得到了支持。结果表明，伴侣对重度饮酒行为的影响是长期存在的，适用于处于不同稳定恋爱阶段（如同居、订婚、已婚）的伴侣。研究发现，女性对伴侣重度饮酒行为的影响与男性相当。研究结果表明，重度饮酒行为应作为伴侣间的问题进行评估和治疗，而不应仅仅视为个人的危险行为。
