The green eyed monster in the bottle: Relationship contingent self-esteem, romantic jealousy, and alcohol-related problems
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Previous research suggests that both jealousy and relationship contingent self-esteem (RCSE) are related to alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. No work, however, has examined these two constructs together as they relate to motives for alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. The current study aims to build upon emerging literature examining different types of jealousy (i.e., emotional, cognitive, and behavioral), relationship quality (i.e., satisfaction, commitment, closeness), RCSE, and alcohol use. More specifically, the current study aimed to examine the associations between RCSE and drinking to cope and RCSE and alcohol-related problems, in the context of the different types of jealousy. Moreover, the current study aimed to assess whether the associations between RCSE, jealousy, and drinking outcomes vary as a function of relationship quality. Two hundred and seventy seven individuals (87% female) at a large southern university participated in the study. They completed measures of RCSE, relationship satisfaction, commitment, closeness, and jealousy as well as alcohol-related outcomes. Using PROCESS, moderated mediational analyses were used to evaluate different types of jealousy as mediators of the association between RCSE and drinking to cope/alcohol-related problems. Further, we aimed to examine whether relationship quality moderated the association between RCSE and jealousy in predicting alcohol-related variables. Results indicated that cognitive jealousy mediated the association between both RCSE and drinking to cope and RCSE and alcohol-related problems. Further, relationship satisfaction, commitment, and closeness were all found to moderate the association between RSCE and cognitive jealousy such that at lower, but not higher levels of satisfaction, commitment, and closeness, cognitive jealousy mediated the association between RCSE and drinking to cope and RCSE and alcohol-related problems.
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Increased RCSE is associated with increased drinking to cope and alcohol-related problems.
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- Authors
- DiBello, A. M., Rodriguez, L. M., Hadden, B. W., & Neighbors, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Houston (US)
- Corresponding author
- DiBello, Angelo M.
- Venue
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 49
- Pages
- 52-58
- ISSN
- 0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W262049453
- Semantic Scholar
- 47b4d28afddd4edb6fe94124b9e252e0d06de11c
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 2.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- digital.usfsp.edu
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- romantic jealousy, cognitive jealousy, drinking to cope, alcohol-related problems, relationship quality, relationship satisfaction, relationship commitment, relationship closeness
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Jealousy, Male, Motivation, Personal Satisfaction, Self Concept, Students, Universities, Alcohol-Related Disorders, Young Adult
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