ArticleAddictive behaviors2021
Difficulties regulating positive and negative emotions in relation to coping motives for alcohol use and alcohol problems among hazardous drinkers.
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- Mental Health, Emotional Regulation, and Psychosocial Work Factors Among Scientific Researchers: A Cross-Sectional Study from Paraguay.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Substance use among Latinx youth: The roles of sociocultural influences, family factors, and childhood adversity.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- The association between aspects of expressive suppression emotion regulation strategy and rumination traits: a network analysis approach.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Parental drinking and observations of parent-child problem-solving discussions: Do drinking motives matter?Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- The Influence of Social Media on Alcohol Consumption of Mothers of Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2023Article
- Risky Drinking in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Differences between Individuals Using Alcohol Only versus Polysubstances.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Review
- Reduced structural connectivity of the amygdala is associated with childhood trauma in adult patients with alcohol use disorder.Addiction biology · 2022Article
- Emotion dysregulation and hazardous drinking in relation to suicidal ideation among Spanish-speaking Latinx daily-smokers.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Parental Problem Drinking, Parent Emotion Socialization and Child Emotion Regulation.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
- Emotional dysregulation in relation to substance use and behavioral addictions: Findings from five separate meta-analyses.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
objectiveHazardous drinking is a prevalent form of alcohol misuse. Past research has examined emotion regulation difficulties as a risk factor for hazardous drinking; however, the majority of prior studies have focused on regulation of negative emotions. Recent work has implicated difficulties regulating positive emotions in relation to alcohol misuse, yet, it is largely unknown if difficulties regulating positive emotions are significantly related to alcohol misuse outcomes after accounting for difficulties regulating negative emotions.
methodA racially diverse sample of hazardous drinkers were recruited from a university setting (75% female, M
resultsAfter controlling for sex, age, and levels of negative and positive affect, positive but not negative emotion regulation difficulties were significantly associated with alcohol problems. Difficulties regulating emotions (both positive and negative), were significantly related to coping motives; each valence of difficulty was also indirectly related to alcohol problems via drinking to cope.
conclusionsDifficulties regulating emotions - both positive and negative - carry a heightened risk of engaging in coping-oriented alcohol use during drinking episodes and this maladaptive means of self-regulation may explain a common pathway to experiencing alcohol-related problems. Notably, difficulties regulating positive emotions appear to offer incremental, explanatory value over and above difficulties regulating negative emotions. Such findings offer important clinical and theoretical implications.
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