Temporal precedence of self-regulation over depression and alcohol problems: Support for a model of self-regulatory failure.

ABSTRACT: Alcohol use is highly comorbid with depression, especially among college students, whose rates of both phenomena are higher than in the general population. The self-medication hypothesis (i.e., alcohol use is negatively reinforced via the alleviation of negative affect) has dominated explanatory models of comorbidity. However, self-regulation has also demonstrated cross-sectional relationships with both depression and alcohol problems and may contribute to the development of alternative comorbidity models. Self-regulation introduces three alternative models that can be tested empirically: (a) a depressed regulation model, (b) a central nervous system depressant model, and (c) a self-regulatory failure model. The purpose of this study was to test the utility of these models (in addition to

SUBMITTER: Acuff SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856390 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature