Alcohol outcome expectancies and coping styles as predictors of alcohol use in young adults

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The pattern and strength of relationships among alcohol-outcome expectancies and coping styles in relation to drinking behaviour were researched. Criterion measures were based on quantity and frequency of weekly consumption and predictor variables included alcohol outcome expectancies/valences and coping styles. The expectancy risk and aggression and the valence of cognitive and behavioural impairment were predictive of drinking behaviour in men, while the sociability valence and the expectancy of negative self-evaluation predicted alcohol use measures in women.

Compulsive behavior

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Do alcohol expectancies become intoxicated outcomes? A test of social-learning theory in a naturalistic

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Research on alcohol consumption in a bar setting shows that while subjects' expectations of intoxication matched their post-drinking outcomes, they found themselves feeling less aggressive and less inclined to engage in high-risk behavior than they had believed they would be. Implications for social-learning models of drinking are examined.

Canada, Science & research, Physiological aspects, Social learning, Drunkenness (Criminal law), Intoxication

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Self-medication in social phobia: a review of the alcohol literature

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This article examines the relationship between social phobia and alcohol use. The authors, maintaining many people promote the belief that alcohol reduces social anxiety, conclude that people suffering from social phobia use alcohol as a form of self-medication, however, it was less conclusive that alcohol actually reduces social anxiety.

United States, Care and treatment, Prevention, Social phobia

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