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Additional research is needed to better understand how legal professionals cope with indirect exposure to trauma, including using alcohol as a coping mechanism. In a sample of U.S. Army Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corps (JAG-C) personnel, this study examined whether hazardous alcohol use was associated with career secondary trauma exposure indirectly via variance shared in common with secondary traumatic stress symptoms and drinking to cope.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corps personnel completed validated questionnaires measuring career trauma exposure, secondary traumatic stress symptoms, drinking to cope, and hazardous alcohol use. Statistical mediation analyses tested sequential pathways linking these variables, controlling for race\/ethnicity, gender, rank\/pay grade, prior combat exposure, and depression and anxiety symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Career trauma exposure significantly predicted hazardous drinking indirectly via secondary traumatic stress symptoms and drinking to cope. However, an alternative model\u2014where coping preceded secondary traumatic stress\u2014was not statistically significant, supporting the hypothesized temporal sequence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>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. 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