Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2015
Effects of anxiety sensitivity on alcohol problems: evaluating chained mediation through generalized anxiety, depression and drinking motives.
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Acceptability/Feasibility of COVID-19 Intervention of a Virtual Group Intervention for COVID-19 Distress
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Decomposing the Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Alcohol Use.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2015Trial
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- A comparative study on hair cortisol concentration among generalized anxiety disorder patients with and without alcohol dependence syndrome presenting to a tertiary care center: A pilot study.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Anxiety Sensitivity and Intolerance of Uncertainty: Transdiagnostic Risk Factors for Anxiety as Targets to Reduce Risk of Suicide.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Aversive Reactivity: A Transdiagnostic Functional Bridge Between Neuroticism and Avoidant Behavioral Coping.Journal of emotion and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Reciprocal longitudinal associations between anxiety sensitivity and alcohol consumption/problems across adolescence: Examining anxiety as a mediator and race/ethnicity as a moderator.Behaviour research and therapy · 2021Article
- Staff experiences of encountering and treating outpatients with substance use disorder in the psychiatric context: a qualitative study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- Social interaction anxiety and perceived coping efficacy: Mechanisms of the association between minority stress and drinking consequences among sexual minority women.Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- The Mediating Effects of Protective Behavioral Strategies on the Relationship between Addiction-Prone Personality Traits and Alcohol-Related Problems among Emerging Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The measurement of the mediator and its influence on statistical mediation conclusions.Psychological methods · 2021Article
- Anxiety sensitivity in relation to cigarette smoking and other substance use in African American smokers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- A multiple mediation model of trait worry and hazardous drinking among treatment-seeking smokers: the roles of coping and conformity drinking motives.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2020Article
- Emotion Dysregulation: An Explanatory Construct in the Relation Between HIV-Related Stigma and Hazardous Drinking among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.Stigma and health · 2019Article
- Intraindividual change in anxiety sensitivity and alcohol use severity 12-months following smoking cessation treatment.Behaviour research and therapy · 2019Article
- Anxiety sensitivity components in relation to alcohol and cannabis use, motives, and problems in treatment-seeking cigarette smokers.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- The neural correlates of priming emotion and reward systems for conflict processing in alcoholics.Brain imaging and behavior · 2017Article
- Emotion dysregulation explains associations between anxiety sensitivity and hazardous drinking and drinking motives among adult treatment-seeking smokers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Article
- Association between physical pain and alcohol treatment outcomes: The mediating role of negative affect.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2015Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and the anticipation of predictable and unpredictable threat: Evidence from the startle response and event-related potentials.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
aimsTo test whether the relations between anxiety sensitivity (AS), a transdiagnostic risk factor, and alcohol problems are explained by chained mediation models, from AS through anxiety or depressive symptoms then drinking motives in an at-risk sample. It was hypothesized that AS would influence alcohol problems through generalized anxiety or depression symptoms and then through negatively reinforced drinking motives (i.e. drinking to cope with negative affect and drinking to conform).
designCross-sectional single- and chained-mediation models were tested.
settingSelf-report measures were completed in clinics at Florida State University and the University of Vermont, USA.
participantsParticipants consisted of 523 adult daily cigarette smokers [mean age = 37.23, standard deviation (SD) = 13.53; 48.6% female]. MEASUREMENTS: As part of a larger battery of self-report measures, participants completed self-report measures of AS, generalized anxiety, depression, drinking motives and alcohol problems.
findingsChained mediation was found from AS to alcohol problems through generalized anxiety then through drinking to cope with negative affect [B = 0.04, 90% confidence interval (CI) = 0.004, 0.10)]. Chained mediation was also found from AS to alcohol problems through depression then through drinking to cope with negative affect (B = 0.11, 90% CI = 0.05, 0.21) and, separately, through socially motivated drinking (B = 0.05, 90% CI = 0.003, 0.11).
conclusionsAnxiety sensitivity and alcohol problems are indirectly related through several intervening variables, such as through generalized anxiety or depression and then through drinking to cope with negative affect.
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