ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2016
Depressive Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems Among College Students: A Moderated-Mediated Model of Mindfulness and Drinking to Cope.
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- Regression tree applications to studying alcohol-related problems among college students.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Examining daily associations between mental health symptoms and simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use and consequences among young adults.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2022Article
- A moderated mediation model of perceived stress, negative emotions and mindfulness on fertility quality of life in women with recurrent pregnancy loss.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Alcohol Consumption Reported during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Initial Stage.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Drinking to cope mediates the relationship between depression and alcohol risk: Different pathways for college and non-college young adults.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- A quantification of the alcohol use-consequences association in college student and clinical populations: A large, multi-sample study.The American journal on addictions · 2018Article
- Depressive statements prime goal-directed alcohol-seeking in individuals who report drinking to cope with negative affect.Psychopharmacology · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveIn college student samples, the association between depressive symptoms and alcohol-related problems has been found to be mediated by drinking-to-cope motives. Mindfulness-based interventions suggest that mindfulness may attenuate the conditioned response of using substances in response to negative emotional states, and trait mindfulness has been shown to be a protective factor associated with experiencing fewer alcohol-related problems. In the present study, we examined trait mindfulness as a moderator of the indirect associations of depressive symptoms on alcohol-related problems via drinking-to-cope motives.
methodParticipants were undergraduate students at a large, southeastern university in the United States who drank at least once in the previous month (n = 448). Participants completed an online survey regarding their personal mental health, coping strategies, trait mindfulness, and alcohol use behaviors. The majority of participants were female (n = 302; 67.4%), identified as being either White non-Hispanic (n = 213; 47.5%) or African American (n = 119; 26.6%), and reported a mean age of 22.74 (SD = 6.81) years. Further, 110 (25%) participants reported having a previous and/or current experience with mindfulness mediation.
resultsAs hypothesized, the indirect effects from depressive symptoms to alcohol-related problems via drinking-to-cope motives were weaker among individuals reporting higher levels of mindfulness than among individuals reporting lower and average levels of mindfulness.
conclusionsThe present study suggests a possible mechanism through which mindfulness-based interventions may be efficacious among college students: decoupling the associations between depressive symptoms and drinking-to-cope motives.
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