The indirect effect of negative emotionality via alcohol craving on abstinence self-efficacy among women in alcohol treatment.

ABSTRACT: Women with alcohol use disorder (AUD) often present to treatment with heightened negative emotionality, including negative affect, anxiety, stress, and depression. Negative emotionality might impact women's alcohol abstinence self-efficacy (AASE), or confidence in their ability to remain sober, which is an important predictor of treatment outcomes. It is also plausible that other variables, such as alcohol craving, influence AASE. The present work examined the indirect effect of negative emotionality on AASE via alcohol craving as a mediator cross-sectionally among a sample of women enrolled in AUD treatment reporting co-occurring depressive symptoms (N = 73). Participants completed baseline measures of negative emotionality (e.g. anxiety and depression symptoms, stress, negative affect),

SUBMITTER: Altman BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature