Alcohol use, emotion regulation, and motives for drinking in a depressed population

Dating violence is a serious problem among college students. Research indicates that females perpetrate as much, if not more, psychological and physical aggression against their dating partners relative to their male counterparts. Unfortunately, there is considerably less research on risk factors for female-perpetrated dating violence, hindering efforts aimed at preventing violence in their relationships. This study examined 2 risk factors for female-perpetrated dating violence, namely alcohol use and emotion regulation, within a sample of undergraduate female college students (N = 379). Using structural equation modeling, results demonstrated that emotion regulation was associated with psychological aggression perpetration, and this was partially mediated by alcohol use. Moreover, a 2-chain mediation was present, such that emotion regulation deficits predicted alcohol use, which in turn predicted psychological aggression, which finally predicted physical aggression. These findings are consistent with theoretical models of dating violence and indicate that intervention programs should focus their efforts on increasing adaptive emotion regulation, decreasing alcohol use, and reducing psychological aggression.

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Relationships among adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology during the treatment of comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders

Behaviour Research and Therapy ◽

10.1016/j.brat.2015.08.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 ◽

pp. 124-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Laren R. Conklin ◽

Clair Cassiello-Robbins ◽

C. Alex Brake ◽

Shannon Sauer-Zavala ◽

Todd J. Farchione ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Alcohol Use Disorders ◽

Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽

Comorbid Anxiety ◽

Regulation Strategies

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Is cloninger type 1 and type 2 alcoholism differ in terms of emotion regulation?

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1727 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. s863-s864

Author(s):

D. Gulec Oyekcin ◽

A. Gurgen

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Emotional Regulation ◽

Emotion Dysregulation ◽

Alcohol Use Disorders ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Income Status ◽

Significant Difference

IntroductionEmotional disturbances are a central characteristic of many mental disorders, including alcohol addiction.ObjectivesIn this study we aimed to investigate the emotion disregulation among alcohol use disorders and to compare the emotion regulation difficulties with type 1 and type 2 alcoholism.MethodsThirty-three treatment-seeking AUD individuals were recruited from addiction division of psychiatry department of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Patients who agreed to participate in the study and completed detoxification treatment were enrolled to the study. After describing the study and obtaining informed consent, participants were assessed with demographic questionnaires (including questions such as age, gender, income status, duration of alcohol use, amount of alcohol use, duration of abstinence were given to participants) followed by the semi-structured interview. Emotion regulation was assessed with the difficulties in emotion regulation scale.ResultOf the patients, 93.9% were male. The average age of participants was 41.21 ± 12.8 years. Of the participants, 60.6% were type 1 and 39.4% of type 2. There was statistically significant difference between type 1 and type 2 alcoholism in terms of emotion regulation. Type 2 alcoholism has more emotional regulation difficulties than type 1 alcoholism. This finding may be consistent with earlier onset of having more impulsive drinking pattern in type 2.ConclusionsIn conclusion alcohol use disorders are thought to be associated with emotion dysregulation. Emotion regulation difficulties, was higher in type 2 than type 1. Emotional regulation strategies should be considered in the interventions and may be evaluated as a new prognostic criteria.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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