Associations Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Emotion Dysregulation, and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Among Inner City Females: Emotion Dysregulation, PTSD, Alcohol Dependence
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine how emotion dysregulation (ED) might help explain the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol dependence (AD) symptoms in females. METHOD: Participants included 260 women from primary, diabetes, and gynecological clinics of an urban public hospital. This is a primarily African American sample (96.9%), including individuals reporting exposure to at least 1 traumatic event. We examined the associations and predictability patterns between severity of PTSD symptoms, ED, and AD symptoms. RESULTS: Using linear regression analyses, PTSD avoidance and numbing symptoms and ED were significant predictors of AD symptoms. When looking at specific dimensions of ED, one's inability to engage in goal-directed behavior under strong emotional influences showed a full indirect effect on the relationship between PTSD avoidance and numbing symptoms and AD symptoms. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that having poor emotion regulation skills may help explain why females with PTSD become dependent on alcohol.
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Avoidance and numbing symptoms are associated with several AS-related outcomes among African American women, including violence, aggressive behavior, and alcohol dependence.
“Avoidance and numbing symptoms are also associated with several ASrelated outcomes among African American women, including violence (Semiatin et al., 2017), aggressive behavior (Banducci et al., 2014), and alcohol dependence (Goldstein et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Goldstein, B., Bradley, B., Ressler, K. J., & Powers, A.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Powers, Abigail
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-07-28
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 319-330
- ISSN
- 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5324595
- OpenAlex
- W2492297437
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 3.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH071537; MH102890)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD071982)
- Emory and Grady Memorial Hospital General Clinical Research Center
- NIH National Centers for Research Resources (M01 RR00039)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional dysregulation, alcoholism, women, African American women, indirect effects, urban women, trauma exposure
- MeSH terms
- Self-Control, Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Alcoholism, Black or African American, Female, Georgia, Humans, Middle Aged, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Urban Population, Young Adult
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