title: Heavy episodic drinking in college students: associations with features of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study extends the college heavy episodic drinking literature by examining the associations between features of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), on the one hand, and heavy episodic drinking and associated problem behaviors, on the other.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 159 (85 male, 74 female) undergraduates from a private university.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants completed self-report measures assessing alcohol use, frequency, and consequences of heavy episodic drinking, and personality pathology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that psychopathy, independent of ASPD, was related to the prediction of heavy episodic drinking frequency and problems associated with alcohol use. It was also found that the relation between traits of psychopathy and heavy episodic drinking are limited largely to the impulsive and antisocial aspects of this condition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings point to the need for further investigation of the association between psychopathy and ASPD traits and heavy episodic drinking behaviors in college students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. patrick.sylvers@va.gov
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sylvers
authors.forename: Kristin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Landfield
authors.forename: Scott O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Lilienfeld
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities