Interactions between adaptive coping and drinking to cope in predicting naturalistic drinking and drinking following a lab-based psychosocial stressor

Abstract

Using alcohol to cope (i.e., coping motivation) and general coping style both are theorized and demonstrated empirically to lead to problematic drinking. In the present study, we sought to examine whether these factors interact to predict alcohol use, both retrospectively reported and in the lab following a stressor task. Social drinkers (N=50, 50% women) received the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), and then consumed beer under the guise of a taste-test. A Timeline Followback interview to assess past month alcohol use, the Drinking Motives Questionnaire (DMQ), and the COPE (to assess adaptive coping) were administered prior to the laboratory challenge. Multiple regression models were used to examine DMQ coping motives, adaptive coping, and their interaction as predictors of milliliters (mls) of beer consumed in a clinical laboratory setting. The association between coping motives and mls beer was positive at both high and low levels of adaptive coping, but at low levels of adaptive coping, this association was stronger. In contrast, there was no interaction between adaptive coping and coping motives in predicting quantity and frequency of drinking in the prior month. Findings suggest that stronger coping motives for drinking predict greater alcohol consumption following a stress provocation to a greater extent when an individual is lacking in adaptive coping strategies. As both general coping skills and coping motives for alcohol use are responsive to intervention, study of the conditions under which they exert unique and interactive effects is important.

Evaluation of coping strategies of male patients, being treated in internet addiction outpatient clinic in Turkey

“…Respectively, the BDI score for the study group was 16.5 (8.5-31) and 6 (2.5-11) in the control group. The IAT score was 48 (40-63) in the study group and 24 (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) in the control group. There was a significant difference between the daily duration of internet use, BDI and IAT scores (p<0.001) ( Table 2).…”

“…Future studies that evaluate the specific and generalized subtypes independently and establish the possible differences in coping strategies may be helpful. Another limitation of our study is that we did not evaluate the individual differences which might influence the coping strategies (21).…”

Relationship Between Alcohol Use, Spirituality, and Coping

“…These strategies can be grouped as either problem-focused or emotion-focused (Lazarus and Folkman 1984) and some of them (such as avoidant coping) were found to be linked to alcohol use (Hasking et al (2011), while others (such as planful coping, positive reinterpreting, seeking social support) were associated with decreased risk of developing alcohol-related problems and with lower involvement with alcohol (Corbin et al 2013; Merrill and Thomas 2013). At the same time, research on confrontive way of coping and substance use remains limited.…”

Coping Motives Moderate Efficacy of Personalized Normative Feedback Among Heavy Drinking U.S. College Students

“…Coping motives may lead to hazardous drinking because individuals lack other, more effective coping strategies for regulating negative affect and related internal states (Cooper et al, 1995;Merrill & Thomas, 2013). Furthermore, in the absence of feedback, coping drinkers may not realize that their drinking patterns are atypical or maladaptive.…”