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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Coping-anxiety and coping-depression motives predict different daily mood-drinking relationships.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Vol 23(2), 2009, 226-237.

Individuals with different drinking motives show distinctive patterns of alcohol use and problems. Drinking to cope, or endorsing strong coping motives for alcohol use, has been shown to be particularly hazardous. It is important to determine the unique triggers associated with coping drinking.

Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that, as hypothesized, stronger initial coping-depression motives predicted higher daily depressed mood-alcohol consumption slopes. Also consistent with expectation, stronger initial coping-anxiety motives predicted higher anxious mood-alcohol consumption slopes.

We discuss how this identification of the unique mood triggers associated with each type of coping drinking motive can provide the basis for targeted interventions.


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