TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - Anxiety and drinking behavior: moderating effects of tension-reduction alcohol outcome expectancies
JO  - Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
A1  - Kushner, M. G.
A1  - Sher, K. J.
A1  - Wood, M. D.
A1  - Wood, P. K.
SP  - 852
EP  - 860
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
N2  - We evaluated whether alcohol outcome expectancies moderate the association between measures of anxiety and alcohol use. Student subjects completed questionnaires related to their level of anxiety, recent alcohol-use patterns, and outcome expectancies for alcohol to be tension reducing. Interviews were used to determine the presence or absence of alcohol dependence in subjects and in their first- and second-degree relatives. Consistent with predictions, male subjects with high tension-reduction alcohol outcome expectancies showed a stronger positive correlation between measures of anxiety and drinking behavior than did male subjects with low tension-reduction outcome expectancies. However, this effect was not found for female subjects. We note past studies showing similar gender effects, and relate the overall study findings to the tension-reduction hypothesis of stress-induced drinking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-6008
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -