title: Emotionally Up and Down, Behaviorally To and Fro: Drinking Motives Mediate the Synergistic Effects of Urgency and Emotional Instability on Alcohol Outcomes.
abstract: Emotional and behavioral regulation has been linked to coping and enhancement motives and associated with different patterns of alcohol use and problems. The current studies examined emotional instability, urgency, and internal drinking motives as predictors of alcohol dependence symptoms as well as the likelihood and severity of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th editionAlcohol Use Disorder (AUD). In Study 1, college drinkers (n = 621) completed alcohol involvement and behavioral/emotional functioning assessments. There was an indirect association between emotional instability and dependence symptoms via both coping and enhancement drinking motives which was potentiated by trait urgency. In Study 2, college drinkers (n = 510) completed alcohol involvement, behavioral/emotional functioning, and AUD criteria assessments. A significant indirect effect from emotional instability to the likelihood of meeting AUD criteria, via drinking to cope was found, again potentiated by urgency.
authors.affiliation: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA robert.dvorak@ndsu.edu.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Dvorak
authors.affiliation: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Kuvaas
authors.affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA USA.
authors.forename: Dorian A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lamis
authors.affiliation: Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.affiliation: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
authors.forename: Brittany L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Stevenson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities
keywords: alcohol use; drinking motives; emotional instability; urgency