Testing a Moderated Mediation Model of Mindfulness, Psychosocial Stress, and Alcohol Use Among African American Smokers
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Mindfulness-based strategies have received empirical support for improving coping with stress and reducing alcohol use. The present study presents a moderated mediation model to explain how mindfulness might promote healthier drinking patterns. This model posits that mindfulness reduces perceived stress, leading to less alcohol use, and also weakens the linkage between stress and alcohol use. African American smokers (N = 399, 51% female, Mage = 42) completed measures of dispositional mindfulness, perceived stress, quantity of alcohol use, frequency of binge drinking, and alcohol use disorder symptoms. Participants with higher levels of dispositional mindfulness reported less psychosocial stress and lower alcohol use on all measures. Furthermore, mindfulness moderated the relationship between perceived stress and quantity of alcohol consumption. Specifically, higher perceived stress was associated with increased alcohol use among participants low, but not high, in mindfulness. Mindfulness may be one strategy to reduce perceived stress and associated alcohol use among African American smokers.
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Dispositional mindfulness buffers against the negative influence of perceived stress on psychological health.
“Studies suggest that DM buffers against the negative influence of perceived stress on psychological health (Adams et al. 2015; Bergin and Pakenham 2016; Bränström et al. 2011; Cole et al. 2014; Daubenmier et al. 2014).”
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- Authors
- Adams, C. E., Cano, M. A., Heppner, W. L., Stewart, D. W., Correa-Fernández, V., Vidrine, J. I., Li, Y., Cinciripini, P. M., Ahluwalia, J. S., & Wetter, D. W.
- Affiliations
- Catholic University of America (US)
- Georgia College & State University (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adams, Claire E.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Mindfulness
- Published
- 2013-11-24
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 315-325
- ISSN
- 1868-8527 (ISSN-L)
- 1868-8535
- PMC
- PMC4384702
- OpenAlex
- W2076489872
- Cited by
- 45
- References
- 94
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Mindfulness (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- National Cancer Institute (U54CA153505, R01CA094826, R25CA057730, P30CA016672)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- psychosocial stress, alcohol consumption, African American smokers, binge drinking, alcohol use disorder symptoms, perceived stress, moderated mediation, stress coping
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