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  • Alcohol use among college students presents significant negative consequences.
  • Emotional processes are crucial in understanding alcohol-related issues.
  • This study examines emotional control, regulation, and lability in college drinkers.

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  • Investigate the role of effortful emotional control and affect lability in college student alcohol use.
  • Examine how poor emotional regulation (sadness, anger) mediates these relationships.
  • Clarify mechanisms linking emotional processes to alcohol-related behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 274 college students from two Midwestern universities.
  • Administered self-report measures for emotional control, regulation, lability, alcohol use, and problems.
  • Utilized structural equation modeling to test mediation effects.

Main Results:

  • Poor emotional regulation significantly mediated the link between effortful emotional control and alcohol problems.
  • Poor emotional regulation also mediated the relationship between affect lability and alcohol problems.
  • Difficulty regulating sadness and anger directly and indirectly predicted alcohol problems.

Conclusions:

  • Higher self-regulation is associated with fewer alcohol-related issues.
  • Emotional lability and poor regulation of negative affect increase vulnerability to alcohol problems.
  • Differentiating emotional control and affect lability aids understanding of alcohol behavior mechanisms.