title: Importance of alcohol-related expectations and emotional expressivity for prediction of motivation to refuse alcohol in alcohol-dependent patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of alcohol-dependent patients' emotional expressivity, alcohol-related expectations and socio-demographic factors for prediction of motivation to refuse alcohol consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study sample consisted of 136 alcohol-dependent patients (100 men and 36 women) undergoing treatment in Kaunas center for addictive disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only higher expression of negative alcohol-related expectations (std. beta=0.192, P=0.023), higher emotional impulse intensity (std. beta=0.229, P=0.021) and higher expression of positive emotional expressiveness (std. beta=0.021, P=0.020) as well as gender (std. beta=0.180, P=0.049), education (std. beta=-0.137, P=0.038) and alcohol dependency treatment conditions (members of support group after rehabilitation program) (std. beta=0.288, P=0.001; std. beta=0.608, P=0.001) were significant factors for predicting the different level of alcohol-dependent patients motivation to refuse alcohol consumption.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Negative alcohol-related expectations, emotional impulse intensity and positive emotional expressiveness were significant even though quite weak triggers for alcohol-dependent patients' different level of motivation to refuse alcohol consumption. An assumption could be made that by changing these triggers it is possible to change addictive behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Psychology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Justina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Slavinskienė
authors.affiliation: Department of General Psychology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Electronic address: k.zardeckaite-matulaitiene@smf.vdu.lt.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D064829:Alcohol Abstinence / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008097:Lithuania; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Alcohol dependency; Alcohol-related expectations; Emotional expressivity; Motivation to refuse alcohol consumption