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Abstract. Alcohol abuse is reflected as a major public health concern in worldwide. It impaired many areas of life, including familial, vocational, psychological, legal, social, or physical ...

Alcohol's actions on synaptic transmission essentially were unknown in 1970 and only have been slowly (and sometimes painfully) established during the past decades. ... Cognitive psychology in the early 1970s was ripe with newly evolving theories about the complexities of cognition, and scientists had developed paradigms useful for testing ...

g et al., 2011). Individuals who drink for coping purposes may seealcohol. as a way of relieving emotional distress or regulating their mood. In addition, habitual drinking, characterized by a pattern of regular an. repeated alcohol use, is associated with higher levels of alcoholconsumption and a greater risk.

The cognitive model of binge drinking (Oei & Morawska, 2004) is an application of Alcohol Expectancy Theory to predict a drinking pattern, binge drinking, which has been defined as consuming more than a threshold number of drinks, or volume of alcohol, during a single drinking episode (e.g., HED, see Chap. 1).Like Alcohol Expectancy Theory, the model comprises alcohol expectancies and drinking ...

Alcohol consumption has decreased slightly in recent years (Eliany 1989; Dufour 1995), predictably, because the population is aging, and older people tend to drink less.

Five personality traits and alcohol consumption across 20 studies (7886 participants); alcohol consumption was higher in individuals with low conscientiousness, low agreeableness, and high neuroticism (Malouff et al., 2007 as cited in Hakulinen, et al., 2015, p. 111). Another meta-analysis study described those individuals with alcohol use

Alcohol use increases drastically between 15 and 25 years of age, ... The Big Five Inventory is widely used across psychology literature, with Conscientiousness, ... (Unpublished doctoral dissertation) State University of New York at Albany, New York. Martens M.P., Karakashian M.A., Fleming K.M., Fowler R.M., Hatchett E.S., Cimini M.D ...

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research ... Unpublished Masters Dissertation, Clarke University, USA. ... most psychopathological research on alcohol addiction has been done through ...

The articles in this special issue of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice feature a diverse and equally important collection of psychology's professional contributions, both nationally and internationally, in substance use disorder and addiction research and clinical practice. Articles in this special issue illuminate the relationships between culture and substance use disorder ...

THESIS FOR DOCTORAL DEGREE (Ph.D.) Public defense in Biomedicum 1, Solnavägen 9, Karolinska Institutet Friday 29th of November, 2019 at 09:00 By ... Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a loss of control over drinking, tolerance, withdrawal and negative psychological, physical and social consequences ...

Research that employs such an experimental approach has examined the effects of alcohol on such diverse topics as aggression, sexual arousal, moods and emotion, self-disclosure, risk taking, assertiveness, moral judgment, social influence, helping, and social interaction. Experimental research has also examined the effects of a variety of ...

Mental health problems, alcohol misuse, and drug misuse are prevalent in postsecondary students. However, the links between mental health, alcohol, and drug use are tangled. The present study examined alcohol use and drug use as predictors of psychological distress in postsecondary students at a large metropolitan Canadian university. An online survey was used to collect data from 3288 ...

By triangulating evidence from observational and experimental methods, the studies reported in this thesis aimed to investigate the strength of evidence for (a) a positive relationship between anxiety and alcohol use, and (b) a stronger positive relationship between anxiety and alcohol use among individuals with high (versus low) drinking to ...

Alcohol consumption has fallen among adolescents in most high-income countries in the past 20 years, but this has not led to a reduction in alcohol-related harms among young adults. 4 Variation is seen across countries, 5 but in the UK, alcohol use increases sharply between age 15 and 18 years (with limited evidence of gender differences), 6 stabilises, and then decreases slightly by age 22 ...

Introduction. Alcohol use is an established determinant of disability and death globally. 1-3 In the extensive literature on various health effects of alcohol, the weight of the evidence is on illness and death. Correspondingly, in the area of mental health, the effects of alcohol on mental disorders such as depression have been more extensively studied than effects on positive mental health ...

Alcohol exerts various effects on our CNS in various ways, the common ones being depression of the CNS, destruction of the brain cells, contraction of the tissues of the brain, suppression of the excitatory nerve pathway activity, neuronal injury, etc [3]. Alcohol's impact on the functioning of the brain ranges from mild and anxiolytic ...

Alcohol, Alcoholism and Conditioning: A Review of the Literature and Some Theoretical Considerations - Volume 104 Issue 434 ... The Psychology of Learning, 1952. 2nd edition. New York: Harper.Google Scholar. 8 8. ... "Alcoholism: a study of emotional maturity and homosexuality as related factors to compulsive drinking", M.A. Thesis, Fordham ...

Research described in this thesis, conducted in the hopes of identifying such a marker, was designed (1) to separate the relative pharmacological and psychological effects of acute alcohol intoxication upon neuropsychological functioning; (2) to investigate the neuropsychological function of SOMAs with a multigenerational family history of male ...

Objective: Evidence increasingly suggests that alcohol marketing plays a significant role in facilitating underage drinking. This article presents a review of empirical studies and relevant theoretical models proposing plausible psychological mechanisms or processes responsible for associations between alcohol-related marketing and youth drinking. Method: We review key psychological processes ...

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Aim: While there is considerable research on the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce alcohol consumption and related harms among college students, there is limited research on students' own perspectives on such interventions. This qualitative study aimed to address this gap by examining college students' perspectives in the context of an alcohol prevention programme for college ...

Although low life satisfaction is related to alcohol abuse among young adults, there is no clear evidence of a specific relationship between wellbeing indexes and alcohol consumption. Several studies have reported different nonlinear relationships. The role of other variables may explain the inconsistent relationships between life satisfaction and alcohol consumption. Concerning individual ...