Health-Related Desistance from Problem Drinking in Midlife Older Adulthood

 描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的独立之路奖的主要目标是加快和完成马修·李博士在发育酒精研究方面的培训，并开始他作为一名独立科学家的职业生涯。李博士是密苏里大学心理科学系的博士后研究员，即将完成NIAAA资助的T32培训奖学金。拟议项目为期两年的培训(K99)阶段将完成Lee博士在检查病理性饮酒停止过程方面的培训。在监督下，李博士将进行研究，评估导致病理性饮酒停止的过程在不同的发育阶段可能会有什么不同。他将通过课程、阅读和咨询接受培训，以增加他在综合数据分析、数据收集方法、进行具有实用价值的研究的战略、中老年人的发展问题、病理性饮酒戒断理论和多层次结构方程建模方面的知识。他将出席与酒精使用/滥用以及青壮年和老年发育问题有关的会议。李博士还将花费大量时间通过准备和提交手稿来传播拟议研究的成果。拟议的导师(谢尔博士)和合作者/顾问(Curran博士、HusSong博士、Bauer博士、Heath博士、Bucholz博士、Chassin博士、Dering博士、Caspi博士、InFurna博士和Steinley博士)共同提供非常适合于促进成功完成拟议的培训和研究活动的专业知识。此外，墨尔本大学是一个世界级的研究机构，拥有必要的资源，以促进成功完成 本拟议项目的培训(K99)阶段。为期三年的独立(R00)阶段将允许Lee博士通过新的数据收集进一步检查中年人和老年人病理性饮酒停止的过程。这项工作将极大地扩展李博士过去对年轻人在高风险饮酒中的发育变化的研究，包括解决NIAAA对寿命发育的重视，以及在中年和老年人中更多地关注高风险饮酒的经验必要性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major objectives of the proposed Pathway to Independence Award are the acceleration and completion of Dr. Matthew Lee's training in developmental alcohol research and the launching of his career as an independent scientist. Dr. Lee is a postdoctoral fellow nearing completion of an NIAAA-funded T32 training fellowship in the department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri (MU). The two-year training (K99) phase of the proposed project will complete Dr. Lee's training in the examination of processes of pathological drinking desistance across the lifespan. With supervision, Dr. Lee will conduct research assessing how the processes that drive desistance from pathological drinking may vary across developmental stages. He will receive training via coursework, readings, and consultation to increase his knowledge of integrative data analysis, data collection methodology, strategies for conducting practically-informative research, developmental issues of midlife and older adults, theories of desistance from pathological drinking, and multilevel structural equation modeling. He will attend conferences related to alcohol use/misuse and developmental issues of young adulthood and older adulthood. Dr. Lee will also dedicate a great deal of his time to the dissemination of findings from the proposed research through manuscript preparation and submission. The proposed mentor (Dr. Sher) and collaborators/consultants (Drs. Curran, Hussong, Bauer, Heath, Bucholz, Chassin, Dearing, Caspi, Infurna, and Steinley) collectively provide expertise that is ideally suited to facilitate te successful completion of the proposed training and research activities. Further, MU is a world-class research institution, with the resources necessary to facilitate successful completion of the training (K99) phase of this proposed project. The three-year independent (R00) phase will allow Dr. Lee to further examine processes of pathological drinking desistance among midlife and older adults via new data collection. This work will greatly extend Dr. Lee's past research on young adult developmental changes in risky drinking, including in ways that address NIAAA's emphases on lifespan development and the need for greater empirical attention to risky drinking among midlife and older adults.