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Because less is known about it, we wished to investigate whether changes in alcohol use were longitudinally associated with changes in personality and in which direction the influence or causation might flow.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> Data came from the self-reported questionnaire answers of 5,125 young men at two time points during the Cohort study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF). Their average ages were 20.0 and 25.4 years old at the first and second wave assessments, respectively. Four personality traits were measured: (a) aggression\u2013hostility; (b) sociability; (c) neuroticism\u2013anxiety; and (d) sensation seeking. Alcohol use was measured by volume (drinks per week) and binge drinking (about 60+ grams per occasion). Cross-lagged panel models and two-wave latent change score models were used.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Aggression\u2013hostility, sensation seeking, and sociability were significantly and positively cross-sectionally associated with both alcohol use variables. Drinking volume and these three personality traits bidirectionally predicted each other. Binge drinking was bidirectionally associated with sensation-seeking only, whereas aggression\u2013hostility and sociability only predicted binge drinking, but not <jats:italic>vice versa<\/jats:italic>. Changes in alcohol use were significantly positively associated with changes in aggression\u2013hostility, sensation seeking, and sociability. Associations reached small Cohen's effect sizes for sociability and sensation seeking, but not for aggression\u2013hostility. 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