title: Emotion dysregulation and coping drinking motives in college women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine emotion dysregulation as a predictor of coping drinking motives, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems among college women.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the cross-sectional study, 424 college women completed confidential surveys assessing the variables of interest.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Structural equation models suggest an indirect relationship between emotion dysregulation and alcohol variables. Emotion dysregulation predicted drinking coping motives, and drinking motives predicted both alcohol-related problems and heavy drinking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In college women, interventions which target emotion dysregulation may indirectly reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems via a decrease in coping drinking motives. Implications for future research will be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA. messmat@miamioh.edu.
authors.forename: Terri L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Messman-Moore
authors.affiliation: Miami University, Department of Kinesiology and Health, Oxford, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Rose Marie
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015146:Midwestern United States; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult