Buffie Longmire-Avital, an assistant professor of psychology, has published an article examining how gender moderates the relationships between depressive symptomatology and alcohol use for HIV-positive African Americans.
Dr. Longmire-Avital and her research colleagues found that depressive symptomatology was the driving predictor of alcohol use for males in comparison to females. For females in the study sample the primary predictor of alcohol use was the woman’s readiness to stop drinking.
The article, “Risk Factors for Drinking among HIV-Positive African American Adults: The Depression–Gender Interaction” appears in the May 2012 issue of The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 38 (3) 260 -266; one of the leading peer-reviewed research journals on substance abuse.