Alcohol and Adult Development: Understanding Etiology and Consequences

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份新的高级科学家研究与导师奖（K05）申请。申请人，密苏里-哥伦比亚大学心理科学策展人教授Kenneth J. Sher，提议为他所在系的三位杰出的终身科学家提供一段时间的研究指导。两位被提议的学员，丹尼斯·麦卡锡（临床心理学家）和布鲁斯·巴塞洛（社会神经学家）目前正在酒精研究领域工作，但尚未获得R01基金。指导的主要目标是协助博士和博士。麦卡锡和巴塞洛进入了他们事业的下一个阶段。第三位被提议的学员，Douglas Steinley（一位数量心理学家）是酒精研究领域的新手，但他已经承诺将酒精研究作为其基础方法论研究的主要应用领域，并打算准备一份指导定量研究的申请

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new application for a Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award (K05). The applicant, Kenneth J. Sher, Curators' Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, proposes to provide a period of research mentoring to three outstanding, tenure-track scientists in his Department. Two of the proposed mentees, Denis McCarthy (a clinical psychologist) and Bruce Bartholow (a social neuroscientist) are currently working in the alcohol research area but have yet to receive R01 funding. A primary mentoring objective is to assistant both Drs. McCarthy and Bartholow to advance to this next stage of their career. The third proposed mentee, Douglas Steinley (a quantitative psychologist) is new to the alcohol research area but has made a commitment to alcohol research as a primary area of application to his basic methodology research and intends to prepare an application for a Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) under the tutelage of the applicant. For all applicants, mentoring goals involve providing guidance and support with respect to grantsmanship and development of mentees' research programs and also on more general professional development. Particularly attention will be given to working with mentees on their own effectiveness as mentors to graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. With respect to his research plan, the applicant plans to continue to pursue a broad research program that seeks to characterize core etiological processes in alcoholism with particular emphasis on understanding the life course of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in the context of co-occurring psychopathology and human development. Using existing data sets and data sets currently under construction, the applicant proposes to continue research on the etiology, natural history, and consequences of pathological alcohol endorsement. Particular emphasis is placed on the analyses of prospective panel and event-based data that provide novel opportunities to study core developmental processes related to alcohol use, alcohol problems, and alcohol dependence in a highly refined and nuanced way that incorporates both contextual information and consideration of individual differences.