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The Relations of Anxiety Sensitivity, Experiential Avoidance, and Alexithymic Coping to Young Adults’ Motivations for Drinking

Stewart, Sherry H., Zvolensky, Michael J., Eifert, Georg H.·2002·Behavior Modification

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The authors examined whether motivations for drinking alcohol are associated with the anxiety-related dispositional tendencies of anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and alexithymic coping. The authors administered the Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Experiential Avoidance Scale, 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Revised Drinking Motives Questionnaire, and a demographics questionnaire to 182 university drinkers. In multiple regressions, the dispositional factors significantly predicted the risky drinking motives of coping, enhancement, and conformity. Coping and enhancement motives were significantly predicted by experiential avoidance. Conformity motives were significantly and independently predicted by anxiety sensitivity and alexithymia. The process of experiential avoidance mediated the bivariate correlation between anxiety sensitivity and coping-motivated drinking to a greater extent than did the process of alexithymic coping. The authors discuss the observed relations in regard to the psychological functions of drinking behavior that may portend the development of heavy drinking and alcohol problems in dispositionally vulnerable individuals. They also review implications for refinements of behavior therapy for problem drinkers.

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Authors: Stewart, S. H., Zvolensky, M. J., & Eifert, G. H.
Affiliations: Dalhousie University (CA)
West Virginia University (US)
ORCID: Stewart, Sherry H.
Zvolensky, Michael J.
Eifert, Georg H.
Venue: Behavior Modification
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2002-04
Volume: 26
Issue: 2
Pages: 274-296
ISSN: 0145-4455 (ISSN-L)
1552-4167
DOI: 10.1177/0145445502026002007
OpenAlex: W2033596465
Cited by: 205
References: 45
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 4.06
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Behavior Modification (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords: anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, alexithymia, drinking motives, hazardous drinking, coping motives, enhancement motives, conformity motives, young adults, university students, heavy drinking, alcohol problems, mediation
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Alcohol Drinking, Anxiety, Avoidance Learning, Behavior Therapy, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Personality Inventory, Risk Factors, Students

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