Stress Reactivity, Social Anxiety, and Alcohol Consumption in People With Alcoholism: A Laboratory Study
| Autor: | Suzanne E. Thomas, Amy K. Bacon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Social anxiety Alcohol dependence Stressor Alcohol Article Psychiatry and Mental health chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Post-hoc analysis Trier social stress test Medicine Stress reactivity business Reactivity (psychology) Psychiatry |
| Zdroj: | Journal of dual diagnosis. 9(2) |
| ISSN: | 1550-4271 |
| Popis: | Social anxiety may maintain alcohol dependence through increased reactivity to stressful events, a propensity to drink to cope with stressful events, or both. The current study is a secondary analysis of an existing dataset that examined differences between individuals with alcohol dependence and concurrent high and low social anxiety in objective and subjective stress reactivity to a laboratory stressor (Trier Social Stress Test; TSST), as well as consumption of alcohol following the stressor.Forty participants with alcohol dependence (20 women) were randomly assigned to the TSST condition as part of the parent study. Post-hoc analysis of social anxiety measures yielded high (No differences emerged in either objective or subjective measures of stress reactivity between high and low socially anxious groups. There were also no differences between social anxiety groups in amount of alcohol consumed during the taste test.No differences were observed between high and low socially anxious participants with concurrent alcohol dependence on stress reactivity or alcohol consumption following a stressor. Given that all participants in this study had alcohol dependence, negative results may suggest that heightened stress reactivity and drinking to cope are more relevant to the development of alcohol dependence and that other factors may maintain alcohol use once dependence has developed. |
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