ArticleAddictive behaviors2017
Drinking motives and alcohol outcome expectancies as mediators of the association between negative urgency and alcohol consumption.
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- Influence of Drinking Context and Age of Onset on Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Motivations Among Uruguayan Adults.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2024Article
- Longitudinal tracking of alcohol expectancies and their associations with impulsivity in alcohol naïve youth in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, Social Connectedness, and Need to Belong.Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Alcohol Misuse Among Youth Living With and at High Risk for Acquiring HIV During the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders: A Study in Los Angeles and New Orleans.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2023Article
- What explains the link between romantic conflict with gambling problems? Testing a serial mediational model.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Cognitions mediate the influence of personality on adolescent cannabis use initiation.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Negative urgency as a risk factor for hazardous alcohol use: Dual influences of cognitive control and reinforcement processing.Neuropsychologia · 2021Article
- Drinking Motives and Drinking Consequences across Days: Differences and Similarities between Moderate, Binge, and High-Intensity Drinking.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
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- Drinking motives mediate the associations between urgency and hazardous/harmful alcohol use among moderate-to-heavy drinking men who have sex with men (MSM).Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- The conditional association of problematic drinking with suicidal ideation by alcohol expectancies.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Alcohol expectancies mediate the association between the neural response to emotional words and alcohol consumption.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- The Normative Underpinnings of Population-Level Alcohol Use: An Individual-Level Simulation Model.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2020Article
- An Evaluation of Alcohol Sensitivity in the Context of the Acquired Preparedness Model.Addiction research & theory · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether the effects of negative urgency, a unique facet of impulsivity marked by engaging in potentially unhealthy and rash behaviors in order to cope with anxiety or negative moods, on drinking behavior can be explained by positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies and specific drinking motives (i.e., coping and enhancement).
methodsCollege students (N=194) completed web-based surveys in exchange for course credit. Students completed measures of negative urgency, comprehensive effects of alcohol, drinking motives, and alcohol use behaviors.
resultsResults of path analysis indicated significant indirect effects of negative urgency and alcohol use through both alcohol outcome expectancies and enhancement motives. The effects of enhancement motives on drinking were mediated by positive alcohol outcome expectancies. The effects of coping motives on drinking were not attributable to negative expectancies.
conclusionsIndividuals high on negative urgency may consume alcohol in order to ameliorate their emotional distress due to strong desires to increase positive and decrease negative experiences associated with drinking. Emotion-focused impulsivity's influence on drinking outcomes can be ascribed to enhancement motives for drinking as well as positive and negative alcohol outcome expectancies. Prevention efforts should target drinking motives and alcohol outcome expectancies among those higher in negative urgency.
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