A person-centered approach to understanding negative reinforcement drinking among first year college students

The current study used a person-centered approach (i.e. latent profile analysis) to identify distinct types of college student drinkers based on the predictions of motivational, social learning, and stress and coping theories of maladaptive drinking.

A large sample (N = 844; 53% female) of first-year undergraduates from two institutions, public and private, who reported consuming one or