焦虑饮酒:焦虑耐受性对焦虑敏感性,恐慌症状和酒精使用和问题之间的关系的温和影响
Rachel B Geyer1, Sarah E Dreyer-Oren1, Akanksha Das1
1Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
|August 31, 2023
概括
具有较低的身体痛苦容忍度的本科生,他们经历了焦虑敏感性和恐慌症状,报告了更多的酒精问题. 增加身体的痛苦耐受性可能会减少这一群体的酒精使用问题.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
背景情况:
- 本科生有增加酒精消费的高风险.
- 酒精使用与焦虑症和其他负面健康结果有关.
- 识别跨诊断因素对于开发针对酒精和相关疾病的干预措施至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查本科生焦虑敏感性,恐慌症状,酒精使用和应急耐受性之间的关系.
- 调查身体和情绪的痛苦耐受性在焦虑敏感性,恐慌和酒精问题之间的联系中的作用.
主要方法:
- 208名本科生完成了对焦虑敏感度,恐慌症状和情绪应对能力的自我报告测量.
- 评估了身体的痛苦耐受性,使用一个屏住呼吸任务.
- 统计分析检查了这些变量之间的相互作用.
主要成果:
- 焦虑敏感性与更大的恐慌症状有关.
- 恐慌症状与增加的酒精问题有关,但仅在耐受性较低的个体中.
- 对情绪困扰的耐受性并没有缓解焦虑敏感性,恐慌症状和酒精问题之间的关系.
结论:
- 身体痛苦耐受性可能是理解本科生饮酒问题的关键因素.
- 旨在提高身体痛苦耐受性的干预措施可以帮助减少与酒精有关的问题.
- 准耐受生理不适的能力可能是一个可行的干预策略.
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