title: Associations between Relationship Satisfaction and Drinking Urges for Women in Alcohol Behavioral Couples and Individual Therapy.
abstract: This study examined the association between relationship satisfaction and drinking urges among women who participated in alcohol behavioral individual therapy (ABIT) and Alcohol Behavioral Couples Therapy (ABCT). Relationship satisfaction and drinking urges were not related on a daily level, but urges were related to mean levels of relationship satisfaction and this association was moderated by treatment condition and time in treatment. Women with higher relationship satisfaction had fewer drinking urges, and women in ABCT with higher relationship satisfaction experienced greater reductions in urges during treatment. These findings suggest that ABCT may target the association between relationship satisfaction and drinking urges.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico, Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA.
authors.forename: Mandy D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.forename: Kevin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Hallgren
authors.forename: Benjamin O
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Ladd
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rynes
authors.forename: Barbara S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: McCrady
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Epstein
keywords: Alcohol; alcohol behavioral couples therapy; couples therapy; treatment; women