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The Relations of Anxiety Sensitivity, Experiential Avoidance, and Alexithymic Coping to Young Adults’ Motivations for Drinking
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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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“cognitive and emotional avoidance and control strategies (e.g., suppression, worry, rumination) can lead to significant increases in subsequent distress (e.g., Butler, Wells, & Dewick, 1995; Stewart, Zvolensky, & Eifert, 2002).”
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- Authors
- Stewart, S. H., Zvolensky, M. J., & Eifert, G. H.
- Affiliations
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- West Virginia University (US)
- Venue
- Behavior Modification
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-04
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 274-296
- ISSN
- 0145-4455 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-4167
- OpenAlex
- W2033596465
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- 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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