Drinking to Regulate Positive and Negative Emotions: A Motivational Model of Alcohol Use

The present study proposed and tested a motivational model of alcohol use in which people are hypothesized to use alcohol to regulate both positive and negative emotions. Two central premises underpin this model: (a) that enhancement and coping motives for alcohol use are proximal determinants of al...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1995-11, Vol.69 (5), p.990-1005
Main Authors: Cooper, M. Lynne, Frone, Michael R, Russell, Marcia, Mudar, Pamela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking
Alcohol Use
Alcoholism
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Coping Behavior
Drinking
Emotional Control
Emotional States
Emotions
Female
Human
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Motivation
Negative Emotions
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regulation
Social behaviour
Social psychology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Teenagers
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Summary:The present study proposed and tested a motivational model of alcohol use in which people are hypothesized to use alcohol to regulate both positive and negative emotions. Two central premises underpin this model: (a) that enhancement and coping motives for alcohol use are proximal determinants of alcohol use and abuse through which the influence of expectancies, emotions, and other individual differences are mediated and (b) that enhancement and coping motives represent phenomenologically distinct behaviors having both unique antecedents and consequences. This model was tested in 2 random samples (1 of adults, 1 of adolescents) using a combination of moderated regression and path analysis corrected for measurement error. Results revealed strong support for the hypothesized model in both samples and indicate the importance of distinguishing psychological motives for alcohol use.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.69.5.990