Relationship of Financial Strain and Psychosocial Resources to Alcohol Use and Abuse: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect and Drinking Motives

Limited research has examined the relationship between financial strain and alcohol use and abuse. Building on affect regulation theory and recent research in the stress and alcohol literatures, this study developed and tested a model relating financial strain, social resources, personal resources,...

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Published in:Journal of health and social behavior 1994-12, Vol.35 (4), p.291-308
Main Authors: Peirce, Robert S., Frone, Michael R., Russell, Marcia, Cooper, M. Lynne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adults
Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol drinking
Alcohol Drinking - ethnology
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcohol Education
Alcohol related disorders
Alcohol Use
Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholism
Alcoholism - ethnology
Alcoholism - psychology
Alcohols
Biological and medical sciences
Comparison
Depression - economics
Depression - psychology
Depressive disorders
Drinking
Drinking Behavior
Economic Factors
Employment - psychology
Family Involvement
Female
Financial Problems
Humans
Male
Mediators
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Meta Analysis
Modeling
Models, Psychological
New York
Personal finance
Psychological stress
Psychological wellbeing
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Relationship
Self esteem
Social Behavior
Social Factors
Social research
Social Support
Structural Equation Models
Unemployment
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Summary:Limited research has examined the relationship between financial strain and alcohol use and abuse. Building on affect regulation theory and recent research in the stress and alcohol literatures, this study developed and tested a model relating financial strain, social resources, personal resources, depression, and drinking to cope to alcohol use and abuse. Data were obtained from a random sample of 1,424 adults who indicated that they had drunk alcohol in the previous year. We tested and then revised our model using structural equation modeling analysis. Results supported the affect regulation model of financial strain and alcohol use and abuse. Generally, depression mediated the relationship between financial strain and drinking to cope, and drinking to cope mediated the relationship between depression and alcohol use and abuse. In addition, both gender and race moderated six of the relationships in our revised model.
ISSN:0022-1465
2150-6000
DOI:10.2307/2137211