Abstract
The effects of musically-induced positive and anxious mood on explicit alcohol-related cognitions (alcohol expectancy strength) in 47 undergraduate students who consume alcohol either to enhance positive mood states (for enhancement motives) or to cope with anxiety (for anxiety-related coping motives) were investigated. Pre- and post-mood induction, participants completed the emotional reward and emotional relief subscales of the Alcohol Craving Questionnaire - Now. The hypothesis that anxiety-related coping motivated drinkers in the anxious mood condition (but not those in the positive mood condition) would exhibit increases in strength of explicit emotional relief alcohol expectancies after the mood induction was supported. An additional, unanticipated finding was that enhancement-motivated drinkers in the anxious condition also showed significant increases in strength of explicit emotional relief (but not emotional reward) alcohol expectancies. The hypothesis that enhancement-motivated (but not anxiety-related coping motivated) participants would exhibit increases in explicit emotional reward expectancies following exposure to the positive mood induction procedure was not supported. Taken together with past research findings, the current results highlight the importance of distinguishing between subtypes of negative affect (i.e., anxious and depressed affect) in exploring the affective antecedents of explicit alcohol outcome expectancies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 102-111 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) awarded to Sherry H. Stewart. This study was conducted as a component of a doctoral dissertation by Valerie V. Grant under the supervision of Sherry H. Stewart. Valerie V. Grant has been funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award, a Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation Student Award, a SSHRC doctoral fellowship, and Killam Predoctoral Scholarships over the course of the completion of this study. Sherry H. Stewart is supported through a CIHR Investigator Award and a Killam Research Professorship from the Faculty of Science at Dalhousie University.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Clinical Psychology