How people experience and respond to their distress predicts problem drinking more than does the amount of distress.

ABSTRACT: Although broad dispositional negative affect predicts problematic alcohol use, emerging evidence suggests that individual differences in how people experience and respond to negative affect may play an important role in risk. In a sample of 358 college students assessed twice across their first year of college, the current study investigated the predictive roles of trait negative affect, affective lability (the tendency to experience rapid and intense shifts in mood), negative urgency (the tendency to act rashly when highly emotional), and problem drinking via self-report measures completed online. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Individual differences in how negative affect is experienced and responded to, represented by affective lability and negative urgency

SUBMITTER: Atkinson EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204363 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature