ArticlePsychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy2023
An event-level evaluation of women's self-medicated drinking: The role of sexual assault severity, affect, and drinking motives.
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- The Impact of Skill Utilization on Alcohol Use Outcomes Following Completion of a Brief Web-Based Alcohol Intervention.Substance use & misuse · 2026Trial
- Sex Motives and Sex-Related Drinking Motives in Women With and Without Sexual Victimization History: A Latent Profile Approach.Journal of child sexual abuse · 2026Article
- Trauma Symptoms as a Bridge: Linking Early Adversities to Interpersonal Risk Profiles for Victimization and Perpetration in Women.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2026Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse, Adolescent-Adult Sexual Assault, and Revictimization: Do Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness Buffer Associations with Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms?Journal of child sexual abuse · 2026Article
- Daily Sexual Objectification As a Proximal Risk Factor for Craving and Alcohol Use After Sexual Assault: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- From sleep to sip? Examining a daily model of sleep and trauma-related drinking among sexual violence survivors.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- An Examination of College Students' Adult Sexual Assault Experiences, Risky Drinking Behaviors, Alcohol Centrality Beliefs, and Restorative Justice Attitudes.Contemporary justice review : CJR · 2025Article
- Do betrayal-based moral injury and drinking to cope explain the association between military sexual trauma and alcohol consumption?Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Web-Based Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Traumatic Stress and Alcohol Misuse Among Survivors of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence: Usability and Acceptability Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- A month in review: longitudinal dynamics between daily PTSD symptom networks, affect, and drinking behaviors in female college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Associations among sexual assault, posttraumatic stress, drinking to cope with anxiety, and alcohol use based on gender identity and sexual orientation.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Event-level positive and negative reinforcement risk factors for alcohol use: Moderation by individual-level alcohol consequences and post-traumatic stress disorder symptom severity.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Sexual Decision Making When Intoxicated: Women's Reasons for and Against Having Sex in a Laboratory-Based Scenario.Journal of sex researchArticle
- Beyond Force, Incapacitation, or Verbal Coercion: Rates and Outcomes of Sexual Assault without Warning.Journal of sex researchArticle
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objectiveWomen with sexual assault (SA) histories report heavier and more frequent drinking. Consistent with the motivational model of alcohol use, women with SA histories may consume alcohol to both downregulate negative emotions and upregulate positive ones. The present event-level study used a Bayesian multilevel moderated mediation approach to examine the extent to which women's alcohol use and intoxication was influenced by coping and enhancement drinking motives to downregulate or upregulate affect, respectively.
methodWomen ages 21-30 were recruited from the community to participate in a larger study that included a 32-day daily diary assessment of affect, drinking motives, and alcohol use.
resultsWe found consistent support for women's tendencies to be motivated to drink to cope or enhance negative or positive affect, respectively, and those drinking motives were associated with indicators of increased drinking. Becoming intoxicated to downregulate negative emotion was common and this pathway was particularly strong for women who reported more severe SA histories. Although women with more severe SA histories were generally more likely to drink more, they were not likely to do so as a way to enhance positive experiences.
conclusionsAlcohol interventions that provide adaptive regulatory strategies are needed for women who experience increased negative or positive affect, with a particular focus on self-medication for young women with more severe SA histories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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