Posted: 07/10/2013 6:11 pm EDT Updated: 07/10/2013 6:11 pm EDT. Getty. By: Laura Poppick, Staff Writer. Published: 07/10/2013 04:02 PM EDT on LiveScience. The personality traits of children in the first five years of their life may help predict alcohol use during teenage years, a new study shows. The study, detailed today (July 10) in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, reveals certain temperaments of kids that are correlated with teen drinking.