Self-Evaluation as a Mediating Variable between Substance Abuse and Stress

People who abuse substances in order to reduce distressing thoughts, uncomfortable physical sensations, and negative emotions, inadvertently increase these stress-related sensations. Deficits in emotion regulation skills, including self-evaluation skills, may have a role in determining this relation...

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Published in:International journal of mental health and addiction 2017-10, Vol.15 (5), p.1055-1063
Main Authors: Connolly, Ross D., Noel, Valerie, Mezo, Peter G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol use
Alcoholism
Anxiety
Brief Report
Community and Environmental Psychology
Data collection
Drug abuse
Drug use
Emotional regulation
Health Psychology
Likert scale
Low income groups
Managerial skills
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neurobiology
Psychiatry
Psychology
Public Health
Questionnaires
Rehabilitation
Self evaluation
Social workers
Stress
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Summary:People who abuse substances in order to reduce distressing thoughts, uncomfortable physical sensations, and negative emotions, inadvertently increase these stress-related sensations. Deficits in emotion regulation skills, including self-evaluation skills, may have a role in determining this relationship. We examined the mediating role of self-evaluation in the relationship between substance abuse and stress. 57 adults who abused alcohol and other substances completed measures of self-evaluation, symptoms of stress, and severity of alcohol and substance abuse. We tested self-evaluation as a mediating variable in two models depicting the association between (1) severity of alcohol abuse and stress and (2) severity of other substance abuse and stress. Self-evaluation and severity of substance abuse (other than alcohol) accounted for 16% ( F (2, 54)  =  5.09, p  
ISSN:1557-1874
1557-1882
DOI:10.1007/s11469-017-9735-1