Secondary Traumatic Stress Exposure and Hazardous Drinking Among United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps Personnel

Findings suggest a potential sequential pathway from trauma exposure to secondary traumatic stress and coping-related hazardous drinking, underscoring an important downstream impact of occupation-specific stress within JAG-C personnel. Targeted interventions that simultaneously address secondary traumatic stress symptoms and alcohol-specific coping motives may mitigate hazardous drinking in this understudied, mission-critical population. Weaknesses of the study includes its cross-sectional design and limited generalizability to the Army at-large.