ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2023
Alcohol-Related Problems Among Black Adults: the Role of False Safety Behaviors.
Article in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The Robust Relation of Microaggressions with Alcohol-Related Problems Among Black Individuals Who Use Alcohol: the Role of Drinking to Cope with Negative Affect.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Anxiety and Cannabis-Related Behaviors Among Black/African American Undergraduates: The Role of False Safety Behaviors.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Mobile Intervention to Address Cannabis Use Disorder Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Alcohol and cannabis dual use among Black adults: Associations with alcohol use, use-related problems, and race-based discrimination.The American journal on addictions · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundBlack adults who consume alcohol experience negative alcohol-related outcomes, indicating a need for culturally sensitive research aimed at identifying malleable psychological factors that may play a role in drinking related problems to inform prevention and treatment. One such factor is false safety behavior (FSB), which reflects behaviors geared toward decreasing anxiety short term but that maintains or increases anxiety long term. Although emerging data indicate that FSBs are related to substance use in predominantly White samples, no known studies have tested whether these behaviors are related to drinking behaviors among Black individuals.
methodsParticipants were 163 Black undergraduate who endorsed current (past-month) alcohol use and completed an online survey.
resultsFSB use frequency was robustly positively related to alcohol-related problems, even after controlling for peak eBAC, anxiety, depression, and relevant demographic variables. Anxiety was indirectly related to alcohol-related problems via more frequent FSB use.
conclusionsNearly all Black individuals who consume alcohol report using FSB to manage anxiety. More frequent FSB use is robustly related to more alcohol-related problems and may play an important role in the relation of anxiety with alcohol-related problems among Black individuals who endorse current alcohol use.
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