Stress and Alcohol Use: A Daily Process Examination of the Stressor-Vulnerability Model

The authors used a daily diary methodology to examine over 60 days how the within-person associations among event stress, alcohol consumption, and desire to drink varied as a function of gender, positive and negative alcohol-outcome expectancies, and avoidant coping in a sample of 88 regular drinker...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 2000-05, Vol.78 (5), p.979-994
Main Authors: Armeli, Stephen, Carney, Margaret Anne, O'Neil, Timothy P, Tennen, Howard, Affleck, Glenn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking - psychology
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism
Associative Processes
Biological and medical sciences
Diary
Drinkers
Everyday life
Expectations
Female
Forecasts
Gender
Human
Human Sex Differences
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Men
Mental stress
Middle Aged
Models, Psychological
Motivation
Personality
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sexes
Social psychology
Stress
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Women
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Summary:The authors used a daily diary methodology to examine over 60 days how the within-person associations among event stress, alcohol consumption, and desire to drink varied as a function of gender, positive and negative alcohol-outcome expectancies, and avoidant coping in a sample of 88 regular drinkers. Multilevel regression analyses indicated that men who more strongly anticipated positive outcomes or a sense of carelessness from drinking drank relatively more on stressful days compared with low-stress days. Similar results were found predicting desire to drink. Men who anticipated greater impairment from drinking drank relatively less on stressful days. In general, these effects did not hold for women. Little evidence was found for the predicted effects for avoidant coping style, and some results showed that avoidant coping style buffered the exacerbating effects of careless unconcern expectancies.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.78.5.979