Publication year: 2011
Source: Addictive Behaviors, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 March 2011
Melissa M., Norberg , Jake, Olivier , Dion M., Alperstein , Michael J., Zvolensky , Alice R., Norton
This study examined the types of alcohol-related negative consequences experienced by college students with different levels of social anxiety and the ability of drinking motives to predict those types of negative consequences. 118 college students completed self-report measures assessing drinking motives and social anxiety and an interview assessing alcohol consumption and consequences. Highly socially anxious women were particularly apt to endorse experiencing adverse role functioning consequences. Although highly socially anxious women were more likely to experience personal consequences from drinking alcohol than were women with low to moderate social anxiety, men with low to moderate social anxiety were more likely…
Research Highlights: ►Highly socially anxious women were more likely to encounter adverse personal and role functioning consequences than women with low to moderate social anxiety and were more likely to encounter role functioning consequences than men in general. ►Men with low to moderate social anxiety encountered significantly more social and personal consequences than women with low to moderate social anxiety. ►Men endorsed more physical consequences overall than women. ►Individually, all drinking motives were associated with the experience of adverse drinking consequences. ►When controlling for social anxiety and biological sex, coping motives were statistically associated with social consequences and marginally related to personal consequences, while enhancement motives were significantly associated with physical consequences.